Bestowed Synonym Quotes & Sayings

If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt

The guys who played with your feelings were jerks, Jane. You deserve better than guys like them. At least you did deserve better until you decided to play their game. — Meredith Schorr

sold to the public on false pretenses, high officials confessing to ordering torture in violation of treaty and domestic law, and an economic meltdown even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledges involved massive fraud - and no one has been prosecuted, no one has gone to prison, and Americans continue to dutifully cast their votes for the Democratic/Republican duopoly responsible for these disasters. — Barry Eisler

To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim. — Reza Negarestani

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels. — Heather Armstrong

It's true that history seems denser than it really is. — Tommy Lapid

Everything begins when you understand that you, and you above all, are Max Brod: this, for W., is the founding principle. That you (whoever you are) are Max Brod, and everyone else (whoever that might be) is Franz Kafka. Which is to say, you will never understand anyone else and are endlessly guilty before them, and that even with the greatest effort of loyalty, you will betray them at every turn. — Lars Iyer

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it. — Erwin McManus

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime. — Kinky Friedman

supervision - sprinkling — Lemony Snicket

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. — Ansel Adams

There was a young man from Stamboul, Who soliloquized thus to his tool: You took all my wealth And you ruined my health, And now you won't pee, you old fool. — Kurt Vonnegut

But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it. In this place you could not feel anything, except the pain and the foreknowledge of pain. Besides, was it possible, when you were actually suffering it, to wish for any reason whatever that your own pain should increase? But that question was not answerable yet. — George Orwell

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear. — Paulo Coelho

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks. — Jonathan Maberry