Deducted Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. — Dale E. Turner

You stole my heart, Regan,"he told her. "And I don't particularly want it back. — Tara Janzen

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that. — Katherine Moennig

A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality. — Densey Clyne

Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair. — David Foster

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard. — Red Skelton

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — Willem De Kooning

With a combination of proper lighting and climate control he managed to achieve a different ecological niche in each gallery. In the African section, where the imbrications of Augustine, Mafouz and Okri lay decomposing, he grew sorghum and Dioscorea yams. In the Chinese gallery where the Tao Te Ching and countless Confucian annotations moldered, he grew rice, crab apples and barley. Over the poems of Neruda and Borges himself, he grew potatoes. Each plant in this new Eden he lovingly tainted with the virus of civilization

- from the short story "Resurrection — Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum. — Dean Koontz

The less you say, the more your words will matter. — Rae Carson

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)] — William O. Douglas

What we fear we often rage against. — Annie Proulx

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. — Aida Overton Walker

Never live your life on the edge when you have loved ones who love you and who are depending on you. — Paul Nat

That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?' — Ashley Monroe