Construe Define Quotes & Sayings

Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people
is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see
anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its
brother death, seem so contented. — Sinclair Lewis

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail ... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. — Richard J. Codey

The man that wars with others is lost. The man that wars with himself is found. — Jason Versey

If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground. — Simon Sinek

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory. — Ben Macintyre

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect. — Kathleen Hanna

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say. — Ann Macbeth

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent — Friedrich Nietzsche

Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. — Jase Robertson

I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly. — Sophie Kennedy Clark

A boy was staring at me.
I was quite sure I'd never seen him befroe. Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed and the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. Mahogany hair, straight and short. He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggresively poor, one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans.
I looked away, suddenly conscious of my myriad insufficiencies. I was wearing old jeans, which had once been tight but now sagged in weird places, and a yellow T-shirt advertising a band I didn't even like anymore. Also my hair: I had this pageboy haircut, and I hadn't even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore, I had ridiculously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment. I looked like a normally proportioned person with a balloon for a head. This was not even to mention the canckle situation. And yet-I cut a glance to him, and his eyes were still on me. — John Green

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

Angels often flee from people who scream too loudly - they know at such moments how close the man or woman is to us, and they feel outnumbered. For devils rush in to attend such outcries. — Norman Mailer

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen