Discursively Define Quotes & Sayings

The swallows, fleeing before the hoopoes, shall have all flocked together in one place, and shall refrain them from all amorous commerce, then will be the end of all the ills of life; yea, and Zeus, which doth thunder in the skies, shall set above what was erst below ... — Aristophanes

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line. — Hans-Werner Sinn

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. — Anita Brookner

POPPY (standing up to Paul): I see family life as invading everyone's privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they're treasured because they're my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive. — Bijou Hunter

There's just something about this girl, small, sweet looking, innocent smile. It makes you want to protect her, slay dragons and lay their heads at her feet. — Ashley Stoyanoff

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?' — Imelda May

i am a brutally soft woman. — Nayyirah Waheed

You cannot clap with one hand alone. — John Taylor Wood

Before us the thick dark current runs. It talks up to us in a murmur become ceaseless and myriad, the yellow surface dimpled monstrously into fading swirls travelling along the surface for an instant, silent, impermanent and profoundly significant, as though just beneath the surface something huge and alive waked for a moment of lazy alertness out of and into light slumber again. — William Faulkner

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity. — Johnny Mathis

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia. — Edward Gibbon

It is supposed to be an axiom of "Western" civilization that the individual, or the truth, may not be sacrificed to hypothetical benefits such as "order. — Christopher Hitchens

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave. — George MacDonald

Death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, — William Shakespeare