Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I… — Harry Benson Copy Share Image
Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing.… — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh,… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better… — Deborah Butterfield Copy Share Image
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There's times where you get the loud, crazy comments from me, and there's times where I say basic things, and stay quiet… — Chris Weidman Copy Share Image
I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
