Chordal Homophony Quotes & Sayings

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew? — Rachel Bloom

It's as easy to utter lies as truth — Agatha Christie

Do you remember when time was working against us? When you said that our time together was limited? I needed you so desperately then. You protected me and gave me reason to hope, showed me that I was still human. I hated myself for giving you that dominance but at the end of the day, I know that it was what I needed ... I needed to fall for you in order to save myself. — Lydia Kelly

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols ... — Hermann Hesse

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

(Wiis? Wiii? What is the plural?) — Rachel Cohn

WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it. — Christopher Locke

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren

A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by pride, alone the prospects were too dark. Way too dark. — Haruki Murakami

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle. — William Gurnall

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning. — John Connolly

My heart swelled in my chest, like a froth of bubbles begging to be released. — Demelza Carlton

Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected. — Squire Rushnell