Bad Metaphors Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness. — Charles Seymour Robinson

A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them. — Publilius Syrus

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business. — Will.i.am

I'd mentioned this odd wardrobe choice to Adrian a couple of weeks ago:
"Isn't Dimitri hot?"
Adrian's response hadn't been entirely unexpected:
"Well, yeah, according to most women, at least. — Richelle Mead

We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is. — Rajendra K. Pachauri

She supposed faeries had never adopted the human ideas of giving each other space and having time to get over relationships.

And maybe they were stupid ideas. Maybe love was love and you should take it when you found it. — Cassandra Clare

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth. — Jay Asher

But since then you've acted like I was a gorilla at your buffet."
"A ... what?"
"Gorilla at your buffet. You know ... eating all your food? Making you annoyed? That kind of thing? — Brandon Sanderson

We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship. — Hayley Long

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. — Earl Wilson

Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance in toto, and which nevertheless in revenge proliferated sexual language, linguistic sexuality, analysis, dissection, deconstruction, exposure. They were theoretically knowing: they knew about phallocracy and penisneid, punctuation, puncturing and penetration, about polymorphous and polysemous perversity, orality, good and bad breasts, clitoral tumescence, vesicle persecution, the fluids, the solids, the metaphors for these, the systems of desire and damage, infantile greed and oppression and transgression, the iconography of the cervix and the imagery of the expanding and contracting Body, desired, attacked, consumed, feared. — A.S. Byatt

We're an easy target for remarks about crossing the border and turning the clock back fifteen years, or a hundred. We're a state that's known for pineapples and cane toads, old bad attitudes and the brain-addling heat that comes from the Tropic of Capricorn sitting right across our middle. We're that kind of state - hot and steamy, unlovely and unloved, far too much fodder here for metaphors about festering and putrefaction. — Nick Earls

Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally good. Whether you embrace a woman or make a poem, it's the same. So long as the main thing is there, the love, the burning, the emotion, it doesn't matter whether you are a monk on Mount Athos or a man about town in Paris. — Hermann Hesse

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach. — Thomas De Witt Talmage

The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens. — William Shakespeare

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. — Jean De La Bruyere

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists. — Frank Sinatra

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. — Robert H. Schuller