Devalue Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. — Alan Watts

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran

You don't choose your life, your life chooses you. — Shelly Crane

Many of the sisters were Black and poor and from D.C., where every crime is a violation of a federal statute. They were beautiful sisters, serving outrageous sentences for minor offenses. — Assata Shakur

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. — Max Frisch

Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families. — Russ Carnahan

I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it. — Michelle Paver

An infant is a pucker of the earth's thin skin; so are we. We arise like budding yeasts and break off: we forget our beginnings. A mammal swells and circles and lays him down. You and I have finished swelling: our circling periods are playing out, but we can still leave footprints on a trail whose end we do not know.
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think you can go it alone. — Annie Dillard

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do. — Walter Lippmann

The most evident distinguishing sign is man's organization of his life according primarily to mythic, and only secondarily economic, aims and laws. Food and drink, reproduction and nest-building, it is true, play formidable roles in the lives no less of men than of chimpanzees. But what of the economics of the Pyramids, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Hindus starving to death with edible cattle strolling all around them, or the history of Israel, from the time of Saul to right now? — Joseph Campbell

I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. — Steve Buscemi

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war? — Debasish Mridha