Averts Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen. — Louise Rennison

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation] ... I invoke ... the gracious favor of Almighty God. — Abraham Lincoln

The food thing is crazy to me. In this town the beer thing is also crazy to me. Frankly even with Brightest Young Things, it's such a celebration of [beer and food], all this stuff. I don't think it's bad or evil, but there's something out of bounds. It's like, "A bar opened!" Who cares? Think about that. — Ian MacKaye

All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet. — Kurt Vonnegut

The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it. — Vannary Rang

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing. — John Lasseter

Park's eyes got wide. well, sort of wide. Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time. — Rainbow Rowell

Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable. — George Santayana

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever. — Terry Pratchett

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. — Aldous Huxley

I'm an old man, now. I've been alone since my 17th birthday. I'd wanted to marry, have a bunch of kids, and maybe be a grandpa. The big family around the Thanksgiving table, laughing and pouring wine and cracking jokes and harmlessly teasing the missus - I wanted that. I wanted to do something good with my life - something right. I didn't want what happened to Danny, my best childhood friend, to be the only mark I'd ever make in this world. But I thought it best not to fancy such hopes and dreams: a family, love. I'd been cursed by my best friend, and I thought it right not to inflict that curse on anyone who'd be foolish enough to love me. — J. Tonzelli

Modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky, — Alexander McCall Smith

Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably. — Jon Meacham

Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body. — Ezra Taft Benson

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them. — Leonardo Da Vinci