Curmudgeonly Antonyms Quotes & Sayings

The test case of the civilizations in America suggests that we are predictable creatures, driven everywhere by similar needs, lusts, hopes, and follies. — Ron Davison

Grandma calls it the Socratic Method. She considers it the highest pedagogical technique. I call it cornering a person. Instead of just telling you what I want you to know, I ambush you with questions. You try to escape, but you can't. You can run whichever way you like, but in the end you'll fall right into my trap. — Sophia Nikolaidou

And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work. — Alan Jacobs

My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good. — Dana Gould

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical. — Les Dawson

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Viktor E. Frankl

In doing nothing men learn to do evil. — Cato The Younger

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me. — Richard J. Daley

I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something. — Elle Fanning

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back — Arianna Huffington

But it was not her beauty that was arresting. It was her style, a sort of insolence toward life, her total lack of caution, her fearless and abundant pride. — Nancy Milford

In the dresser mirror, my face looks the same, but I feel something happening around me, some change as palpable as weather. Stuck in the mirror are mementos from my childhood - red and yellow ribbons for various underachievements, a brown corsage from grad school graduation, a curling and faded picture of me petting a deer in Wisconsin - which is now over. I wandered through it and came out the other side.

It's a stark feeling. Like getting to the last page of a book and seeing 'The End.' Even if you didn't like the story that much, or your childhood, you read it, you lived it. And now it's over, book closed, that long-ago deer you petted in the Dells as dead as the one in The Yearling. — Jo Ann Beard

A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps. — Paulo Coelho

Particularly in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, — Rainer Maria Rilke