Synonymous Quotes

128 quotes by 124 authors

Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of… — David Shi
Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous. — Stella Adler
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery… — John Dewey
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour.… — Benjamin Disraeli
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued… — Sam Harris
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection… — Victor Hugo
Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place… — Annie Lennox
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for… — Tariq Ramadan
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs… — Charles Stanley
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability… — Edward Thorndike
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become… — LZ Granderson
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any… — Aldo Leopold
Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose… — Kiran Desai
Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second:… — Truman Capote
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first… — Jane Austen
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. — Gertrude Stein
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as… — Jane Austen
..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for oneâ€™s own use - need not be… — Bell Hooks
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous. — Terry McMillan

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