Abrasiveness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be? — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the person we want to attract. When our real self appears in its entirety, when the good behavior becomes too much to maintain or the masks are taken away, disappointment comes. All too often individuals feel, after the fact-when feelings are hurt and hearts are broken-that it was a case of mistaken identity, that the loved one is a stranger. They saw what they wanted to see rather than what was really there. — Bell Hooks

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. — Ahmed Ben Bella

loaded wagons with tents, sent out to his outlying estates — Carol McGrath

Yes, I used to trim her topiary at least once a week. — Stephen King

I went for him, shook him by the shoulders with nothing better to shout at him but 'Why? Why?'
He answered me gravely, 'It's true. But you must begin to think of *how*. — Rene Daumal

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward. — Paige Craig

Skin had hope, that's what skin does. Heals over the scarred place, makes a road. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. — Susannah McCorkle

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep — W. H. Auden

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. — Theodore Bikel

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room. — Janette Rallison

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured ... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object. — Paul Tillich