Bona Fides Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me. — Peter Ackroyd

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money. — Ann Richards

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. — Joe Hill

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. — Ralph Archbold

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. — Guy Clark

Flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share. — Edmund S. Phelps

I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation. — Gordon Brown

I've always loved film more than theater. — Laura Dern

She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness."
Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. He had slept badly. Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother ... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart. — Robert Galbraith

The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality ... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [ ... ] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste ... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff ... — Konrad Lorenz

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not. — Kay Redfield Jamison

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax ... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know. — Plato