Adumbration Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it. — Faith Hill

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal. — Steve Aylett

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it. — Helen McCrory

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
— Thomas Nagel

All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves. — John Randolph

We see all of these things that we can never buy, all of these places we can never go, all of these people we can never touch or love or be. — Leif Wenar

If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct ... make any better. It's frightening. — Milan Kundera

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring. — Dave Barry

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by. — Salman Rushdie

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in. — Dave Matthews

Rather life would work against those who don't like to change. — Sunday Adelaja

Study the Past to Understand Today — Cynthia Belmer

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. — Naomi Shihab Nye

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. — Horace