Demands Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe

Now I find that what life was making of me, what God was making of me, was not an arrow to trace a path through the sky, but the hub of a wheel. I am the intersection, I am the connection between them all, and the purpose I've been given isn't mine alone. It's for all of us to share. What I needed wasn't something I could take. What I needed was something I could give. — Lisa Samson

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart. — Eric Dickerson

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past. — Chiang Kai-shek

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. — Joni Mitchell

That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. — H.L. Davis

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world. — Tom Shadyac

Might have been enough for a warning - it looked so like a human being dried up and distorted with age and suffering, with cares instead of loves, and things instead of thoughts. — George MacDonald

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours. — William James

Scientists have reported that elephants grieve their dead, monkeys perceive injustice and cockatoos like to dance to the music of the Backstreet Boys. — Hal Herzog

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published? — Ashleigh Brilliant

Just as soon as apart time ends, I say, and his face falls as if I said I was going to kill his wife, Natalie, and their three blond-haired daughters - Kristen, Jenny, and Becky - because that's just how much he does not believe in silver linings, making it his business to preach apathy and negativity and pessimism unceasingly. — Matthew Quick

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. — Haruki Murakami

The monsters are in your own head. — Paula Cole

As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and it demands good students, not one who play truant. In this school we learn something every day. We learn something from commandments, something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things are remedies for our wounds and materials for study. — Augustine Of Hippo