Blatantly Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it. — Jennie Finch

The Roman army required salt for its soldiers and for its horses and livestock. At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression "worth his salt" or "earning his salt." In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meaning pay, which is the origin of the word, soldier. To — Mark Kurlansky

Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Tom Stoppard

In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

In an election, there are no kings. — Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

To those who struggle to find peace amongst the chaos of your silence. May your voices be heard. — Jay McLean

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. — Dudley Field Malone

Are you a girl or a boy?' Liesl was wearing the same thin nightshirt she had been wearing since Tuesday, when her father died, and it occurred to her that if the ghost was a boy, she should cover up.
'Neither,' the ghost replied.
Liesel was startled. 'You have to be one or the other.'
'I don't have to be anything,' the ghost replied, sounding irritated. 'I am what I am and that's all. Things are different on the Other Side, you know. Things are ... blurrier. — Lauren Oliver

One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you. — Vincent Van Gogh

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He realized suddenly that he loved the old hobbit dearly. — J.R.R. Tolkien

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. — Mahmoud Darwish

The light moves slowly down its flanks and gradually fills the lower valleys.

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Hasbach, Patricia H.
2012-08-13 Ecopsychology — Peter H. Kahn Jr.