Deemed Synonym Quotes & Sayings

It will happen instantly, by the way, when you see the years on her and reach for her hand anyway, in a kinetic moment that preludes and rationality whatsoever. You will be afraid of how she interprets this, and you will worry, and the two of you will talk through it, and there will be more moments that defy rationality, more moments than you can imagine, moments that build an entire castle upon an entire world that precludes the very act of thinking. — Trevor Dodge

human society is a web of mistakes; nobody has the sense to do the right thing at the right time, and when the chance is gone we break our hearts over vain longings. — Rabindranath Tagore

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. — Pablo Picasso

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction. — Markus Zusak

But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us for the slight God did in not creating you in His image. — Colleen McCullough

A Zendo is not a peaceful haven
but a furnace room for the combustion
of our egotistical delusions. — Eido Shimano Roshi

Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best. — Meg Rosoff

Get old, you might as well not worry about your dignity. Anybody talks about dignity for old folks has never been around one as far as I can tell. You can keep your spunk, but you have to give up your vanity early on. — Sue Grafton

This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place. — Kelly Cutrone

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars. — Wendy Doniger

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. — Voltaire

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. — Natalie Cole

I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us - Christians, Muslims, atheists - lived in this fear of this truth. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

eventually we'll be old and wrinkled. Like everybody. But we'll look a lot better if we're happy inside. If we used our brains and our talents instead of stressing over what someone else defines as 'pretty.' — Lissa Price