Accustomed Def Quotes & Sayings

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle.

You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk. — Thomas Jefferson

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves. — Virginia Woolf

Khaemwaset's eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its choked river growth, its darting, piping birds, its busy insects and occasionally its sleepy grinning crocodiles, was a wealth of rich black soil in which the fellahin were struggling, knee-deep, to strew the fresh seed. — Pauline Gedge

Caveman post therapy was still caveman. — R.K. Lilley

What a thing it would have been to see her take a breath. — Dennis Mahoney

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide. — Nikolai Berdyaev

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion — Sigmund Freud

Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives — Jennifer E. Smith