Distinctively Synonym Quotes & Sayings

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. — Chogyam Trungpa

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. — Claudia Rankine

When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think ... I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy. — John Logan

an excuse to bring out the bottle of sherry and visit — Donna Tartt

I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major. — Boris Kodjoe

When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism. — Bryant McGill

What do gardeners do when they retire? — Bob Monkhouse

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks. — Amit Kalantri

Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you ... — Joshua Fernandez

It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right. — Pittacus Lore

Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dodd-Frank was passed ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them. There've been 122 community and small banks have closed since Dodd- Frank ... I would repeal and replace it. — Mitt Romney

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong. — Swami Vivekananda

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It's not just the guy with guns - it's the guy with brains. — Benedict Cumberbatch