Confute Define Quotes & Sayings

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. — Victor Hugo

My parents treated me like a breakable heirloom, afraid to fight or fret in front of me least I shatter. — Ransom Riggs

cheery as a cherrio — Stephen King

They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself ... — Curtis Jackson

The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales. — Melanie Chisholm

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. — Andrew Solomon

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired. — Nick Offerman

We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive. — Wayne W. Dyer

The people we are most fond of are not good for us when we are ill. — Virginia Woolf

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love. — Mother Teresa

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. — Jesus Christ

I got an answering machine for my phone ... Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up ... they hear a recording of a busy signal. — Steven Wright

The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life
different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability
mingle so freely. — Tom Vanderbilt

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. — Amelia Earhart

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always. — Caroline Knapp