Copious Synonym Quotes & Sayings

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour. — Benjamin Franklin

If we are only interested in changing the AS person so that they can better meld themselves into society - a tenuous and nebulous concept to begin with - then perhaps we are misguided. The AS community gives us much cause to celebrate. Never, I think, should we expect or want them to be carbon copies of the most socially adept among us. We should only suggest whatever help they need to insure they have every opportunity of leading productive, rewarding and self-sufficient lives. We would lose too much and they would lose even more, if our goals were anything more, or less. — Liane Holliday Willey

I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see. — Rachel Vincent

This I said in the Irish way, about which there is allowed to be something very engaging. It's a remarkable thing, and a testimony to the love with which our nation is regarded, that this address scarce ever fails in a handsome fellow. I cannot tell how often I have seen a private soldier escape the horse, or a beggar wheedle out a good alms, by a touch of the brogue. — Robert Louis Stevenson

And now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches. — Shawn Mendes

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be. — Arjuna Ardagh

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. — Ayn Rand

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself. — James Howell

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

When a thought hurts, that's the signal that it isn't true. — Byron Katie

Children are great observers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation. — Tom Brokaw

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. — Isaac Asimov

Discovering your calling is not an epiphany but a series of intentional decisions. It looks less like a giant leap and more like building a bridge. — Jeff Goins

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it. — Lewis Black