Sparred Define Quotes

#1. Christmas was over. It had passed, as usual, in a fever of generosities, and left an aftertaste of swindle in its wake. "Anticippointment" Pamela said ... and there was in that invented word all the regret and resignation that forty-seven years of Christmases had built up in her.

David Leavitt

#2. If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

Seymour Sarason

#3. Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

George Henry Lewes

#4. When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.

Shelley Conn

#5. Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Alan Turing

#6. John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

James Berardinelli

#7. It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Jack Kornfield

#8. Nate, your commitment phobia is showing again." He turned to me in mock horror.
"Where?" He patted his cheeks anxiously. "Get it off me.

Samantha Young

#9. Mainly because not only did Lee not play by the book, Kai Mason had made an art of pissing all over the fucking book.

Kristen Ashley