Amusingly Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — Isaac Asimov

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone. — Charles Spurgeon

One of the most important things I've learned in life is that complicated isn't always bad. Sometimes complicated is just complex. — S.L. Scott

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. — Anthony Marra

She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes. — Anthony Doerr

We seem to be in a continuing feedback loop of repeating a past that our country has yet to address. Our history is one of spectacular achievement (as in black senators of the Reconstruction era or the advances that culminated in the election of Barack Obama) followed by a violent backlash that threatens to erase the gains and then a long, slow climb to the next mountain, where the cycle begins again. The — Jesmyn Ward