2020 High School Cynicism Quotes & Sayings

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! — Bruce Lee

Impending war was evidenced by the faraway expression in the older villagers' eyes, the shadows on their faces, not of fear but of sorrow. Because they knew; they had lived through the last war and they remembered the generation of young men who had marched off so willingly and never come back. Those too, like Daddy, who had made it home, but left in France a part of themselves that they could never recover. Who surrendered to moments, periodically, in which their eyes filmed and their lips whitened, and their minds gave over to sights and sounds they wouldn't share but couldn't shake. — Kate Morton

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies. — Rainer Maria Rilke

To have a big life, dream a big dream. — Debasish Mridha

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth. — Julie Bowen

Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk — Charles Dickens

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn't matter. What matters is this: Thank to it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle. — Max Anders

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. — John Bright

The simple Wordsworth ... / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance. — Beverley Nichols

The first 10 000 shots are the worst. — Helmut Newton

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. — Marge Piercy