There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. — John Lyman Chatfield Copy Share Image
Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex! — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which… — Mikhail Chigorin Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must -… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent… — Sunderlal Bahuguna Copy Share Image
Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man… — Daniel Guerin Copy Share Image
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag. — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folks are astounded that 'judge' isn't a synonym for 'humorless Luddite.' — Don Willett Copy Share Image
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
