Curiously Synonym Quotes & Sayings

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research. — Marie Curie

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. — Charles Van Doren

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate. — Gene Simmons

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. — Margaret Atwood

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief ... I don't need on-the-job training. — John McCain

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. — John Milton

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times. — Amber Benson

I grow stronger with every moment. I will be wild. I will be brutal. I will encircle you and conquer you. I will be more powerful than your boats and your swords and your blood lust. I will be inevitable. — Rachel Swirsky

People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be. — Terence McKenna

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on. — Zora Neale Hurston

When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off. — Jeffrey Fry

If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal. — Newt Gingrich

It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen to my show; they know a lot about me. — Marc Maron

When your parents don't like you, then you are free. — Jane Smiley