Expedient Synonym Quotes & Sayings

(In fact, passion that goes beyond the natural measure of love ultimately aims at the mystery of becoming whole, and this is why one feels, when he has fallen passionately in love, that becoming one with the other person is the only worthwhile goal of one's life.) — C. G. Jung

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council. — Nostradamus

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen. — Philippa Gregory

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. — Richard Hofstadter

Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured. — William Styron

Are you calling me a weirdo?
Highest honor I can bestow. — Claudia Gray

Like the Bermuda triangle, she swallowed her victims whole. — Brandi L. Bates

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. — Colleen McCullough

Quitting is a hiccup for losers. And down they go. — Lorenz Font

Chains of gold are still chains. — Robert Thier

His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval. — Scott Lynch

Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young — Coco Chanel

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds. — Peter Sellers

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. — Bertrand Russell