Enrapturing Synonym Quotes & Sayings

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man. — Alex Haley

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The worst thing in the world is to...live by another person's idea of who you are. — Michele Michael

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs. — Robert Metcalfe

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped. — Sri Aurobindo

KID: [Whispering, pointing at Avery.] Mom, why is that girl here alone? MOM: I'm sure her parents are nearby. Don't worry about it. KID: [Shouting, as I turned to walk Avery to the stacks.] ARE YOU AN ORPHAN? — Gina Sheridan

I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve — Richard Branson

[ ... ] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [ ... ] — Jonathan Coe

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. — Carl Lewis

I've never really liked the Yanks ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. — Terry Pratchett

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts. — Dwight L. Moody

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein,
form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life. — Alice James

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. — Alexander Pope

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself. — Brian Molko

Meir, let me ask you something," I said after a while.
"Sure."
"Do you think I'm a bad person?"
"Only God knows that for sure, Willy."
"So you don't have an opinion at all?"
"Not one that really matters."
"Okay, let me ask you something else. If the Polish peasant who hid Jews from the Nazis is a hero, what is the Polish peasant who turned the Jews away? Is he a coward?"
Meir smiled, "Of course."
"Really? A coward? A bad man?"
"A coward isn't a bad man, necessarily. You can't know if you're a bad man until you die."
"You've got to wait until you hear god's decision?"
"Well, yes, that's true. But I meant something else. Only when you die do you run out of chances to be good. Until then, there is always the possibility of turning yourself around. — Zoe Heller