Contrasted Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Well, it wasn't no revelation to me cause I always knew she was a freak. — Truman Capote

My title "The Fabrication of Facts," has the virtue not only of indicating pretty clearly what I am going to discuss but also of irritating those fundamentalists who know very well that facts are found not madder, that facts constitute the one and only real world, and that knowledge consists of believing the facts. These articles of faith so firmly possess most of us, they so bind and blind us, that "fabrication of fact" has a paradoxical sound. "Fabrication" has become a synonym for "falsehood" or "fiction" as contrasted with "truth" or "fact." Of course, we must distinguish falsehood and fiction from truth and fact; but we cannot, I am sure, do it on ground that fiction is fabricated and fact found. - 91 — Nelson Goodman

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows. — Howard Rheingold

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. — Terry Riley

Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul. — Thomas Chalmers

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin

In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined. — Alex Berenson

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit. — George Washington

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment. — David Jeremiah

The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence — Lee Smith

With that said, don't be trifling about being a feminist. It really infuriates me when high-profile people in your position self-identity as feminists just because it's trendy at the moment and then don't do any of the, you know, actual work of trying to make things equal for everybody. You're going to have to roll up your sleeves and get dirty in order to create a society that takes women as seriously as the men. The type that encourages us to not define ourselves by who we go to bed with at night, but by who and what we see reflected back at us in the mirror in the morning. The type that recognizes that women are not a monolith and that they have wildly different experiences informed by their race and/or sexuality. Be that beacon of light that we can look toward. Be the feminist who will help normalize the idea of Feminism for society. Be the feminist everyone needs. No presh. 3C. — Phoebe Robinson

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle. — Rebecca MacKinnon