Bettered Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

This is what I have held against boyfriends all my life: that they are the people who steal your best friends away from you piece by piece, and when they give them back (if they ever do), it is only when they have made your best friends sadder and more heartbroken than when they were first taken. Because that's what it looks like, from here. It had to be his fault, because how could someone who is my best friend ever really choose to see me less and less until we see each other almost not at all? This is what I believed: Best friends, if only by virtue of you calling them your "best friend," just don't do that.
But they do. — Katie Heaney

Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close. — Edmund Burke

Life begins now
right now
not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want. — Neale Donald Walsch

Take courage, Mortal ... Death cannot banish you from the Universe. — Benjamin Franklin

We have known for some time that the poor and ignored were the nonvoters, alienated from a political system they felt didn't care about them, and about which they could do little. Now alienation has spread upward into families above the poverty line. These are white workers, neither rich nor poor, but angry over economic insecurity, unhappy with their work, worried about their neighborhoods, hostile to government - combining elements of racism with elements of class consciousness, contempt for the lower classes along with distrust for the elite, and thus open to solutions from any direction, right or left. — Howard Zinn

We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it. — Rachel Joyce

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I have a better idea,' said she. 'Know that under a mortal name am I mistress of the Palace of Kama in Khaipur.'
'The Fornicatorium, madam?'
She frowned. 'As such is it often known to the vulgar, and do not call me 'madam' in the same breath
it smacks of ancient jest. It is a place of rest, pleasure, holiness and much of my revenue. — Roger Zelazny

She would give him one more chance, Phasma decided. One last chance for FN-2187 to decide his fate. — Greg Rucka

You might be a redneck if your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive. — Jeff Foxworthy

As Christians you should be like bridges to Heaven; letting people walk on you to get there. — Tommy Tran

I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all. — Jennifer Worth

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her
then don't let her go. — Nicholas Sparks

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' — Jonathan Kozol

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality. — Irvin Kershner