Confrontations Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

You're proud of your ability to both believe and question everything. Secretly you think everyone does, but at some point they give in, surrender to the comfort of certainty. It's too much trouble, this endless jousting of belief and doubt, too tiring. Finally you suppose it will break you, yet strangely it's the only thing that keeps you going - though, true, at times you feel unbalanced, even somewhat mad. — Stewart O'Nan

You can't trap justice. It's an idea, a belief. — Brad Pitt

Seamus can't be the king to my queen. Because he's a saint. And no one measures up to a saint. — Kim Holden

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven. — Freddy Fender

There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers. — Raymond Cattell

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked. — Wil Wheaton

i hope that
whoever you are
wherever you are
and no matter how
you are feeling

you will always
have something
to smile about. — Sanober Khan

I like to read the ending first. — Melissa Marr

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources. — S. Truett Cathy

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness. — Laozi

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing. — Alfred Hitchcock

When after many battles past,
Both tir'd with blows,
make peace at last,
What is it, after all, the people get?
Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt. — Francis Daniels Moore