Defined By Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the Church. How many bishops, priests, religious, and laymen, would have swallowed the lies of the heretics if they had not believed themselves bound to do so by the voice of Christ's Vicar on earth? Questioning the authority of these men renders their revolution of doubtful authenticity. — John Lane

The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine. — Barbara Kingsolver

You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are. — Tana French

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. — William Shakespeare

All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way. — Tim Kring

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions. — Charlotte Rampling

Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology — Alexander McCall Smith

It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism — Dennis Flanagan

I wanted to kiss you like the waves kiss the shore under the blue sky. — Debasish Mridha

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science. — Jonathan Maberry

You are a knowledgeable girl," he said, "and a damn good-lookin one, though upholstered. Care for a beer? — Annie Proulx

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt. — Ben Bernanke

He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him
How that could be - I thought the dead were souls,
He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious
That there's something the dead are keeping back?
Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back. — Robert Frost

Does she make the risk worth it?"
Despite the years they'd been at odds, they still understood each other perfectly. Ian didn't hesitate to answer.
"It isn't a matter of choice, Benjamin."
The other man sighed. "It never is. — Kristen Callihan

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her. — David Spade

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain. — Gary Hamel