Discloses Def Quotes & Sayings

Semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense — Alfred Tarski

But mistakes don't define us, they refine us. — Victor W. Hwang

Because yeah, females could be vanity hounds and most preferred their dates to have hair. Black, blond, red, it didn't matter, as long as the locks were thick and lustrous. And here was a news flash for little Miss Giggles: when he allowed his to grow, it was dark brown, nearly jet, with hints of gold and worthy of a fucking lion.
Not that he was feeling defensive or anything. — Gena Showalter

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources. — Ger Duany

When darkness fell, he told me to close my eyes and dream, for in my dreams I would find another world, and in my waking life I would soon enough find such a world as well ... — Alice Hoffman

Harness the power of love to create spontaneous success with effortless ease. — Debasish Mridha

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country. — Donnie Yen

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with. — John Waters

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air — E. E. Cummings

The dearest things in the world
are our neighbor's eyes;
they cost everybody more
than anything else in housekeeping. — Sydney Smith

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful. — Seth Godin

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private. — Graham Swift