Enacted Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process. — Matthew Desmond

These trenches are like Pompeii, sir. — Ford Madox Ford

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be. — Benjamin Clementine

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band. — Gary Wright

The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to the heavens, a lost middle-class student searching for guidance in an inhospitable world. — Amit Chaudhuri

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness. — Sarah MacLean

When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic. — Marco Rubio

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life. — Jenny Lawson

If you had to choose an oil ... it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great to have when people around you are sick; it can also be used to relax. — Karen Rose

I should've been furious, but for some reason I wasn't. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he'd ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father's killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh's head and I could sing "Kumbaya" together by the fire. — Ilona Andrews

Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia. — Bernard Hopkins