Considerable Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured. — Ellen Key

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world. — Thomas Merton

Life can be a bitch. so grab her by the hair and fuck her whilst screaming and firing a gun into the air! — Me

Time often removes the laurel wreaths and places them on the heads of the real winners. But then usually both are dead. — Dejan Stojanovic

The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind. — George H. W. Bush

One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an apple. I show the little plantseed to Ms. Keen. She gives me extra credit. David rolls his eyes. Biology is so cool. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Do you know that the spectator is the last of the rings which, as I am saying, receive the power of the original magnet from one another? The rhapsode like yourself and the actor are intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of them. Through all these the God sways the souls of men in any direction which he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another. Thus there is a vast chain of dancers and masters and undermasters of choruses, who are suspended, as if from the stone, at the side of the rings which hang down from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom he is suspended, and by whom he is said to be possessed, which is nearly the
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same thing; for he is taken hold of. — Socrates

May walked slowly around the body, studying it. Putrefaction had been halted in its advance, but the corpse's skin had turned green and black, producing an acrid odour. He found it hard to imagine that this man had recently been walking around, eating in restaurants, watching TV. He was someone's lover, someone's son, but there was almost nothing human left. Without a head his trunk bore an unsettling similarity to something you would find in a meat locker. How would his loved ones feel if they could see him like this? 'Get anything else?' 'It's tricky because the usual decay process has been interrupted by the relatively sterile storage of the body. Usually, after two to three days you get staining on the abdomen. The discolouration spreads, veins grow dark, the skin blisters after a week, tissue starts softening and nails fall off at around the three-week stage, and finally the face becomes unrecognisable as the skin liquefies - — Christopher Fowler

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again. — Wesley Morris

I saved her only to hear her die. — Anthony Doerr

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities, — Sonja Lyubomirsky

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose. — Oscar Wilde

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck. — Burleigh Grimes

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make. — Lu Yu