Construing Synonym Quotes & Sayings

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go. — Henry Rollins

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide. — Pope Francis

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender. — Heather Wolf

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. — George Clooney

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose. — Blake Edwards

deaf ear is evidence of a closed mind. — John C. Maxwell

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that. — Timothy Ciciora

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. — Mark Twain

But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again! — Jenny Offill

if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy. — Mons Kallentoft

Minding the gap is a daring strategy. We have to pay attention to the space between where we're actually standing and where we want to be. More importantly, we have to practice the values that we're holding out as important in our culture. Minding the gap requires both an embrace of our own vulnerability and cultivation of shame resilience - we're going to be called upon to show up as leaders and parents and educators in new and uncomfortable ways. We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with action. — Brene Brown

The ladies
Heaven bless them!
are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. — William Makepeace Thackeray

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me. — Michael K. Williams