Expended Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things
things we can see
as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart. — Joan Bauer

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace. — Henry David Thoreau

Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words. — James Joyce

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus

the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those — Yuval Noah Harari

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. — Dave Eggers

Note to self: Always remember how lucky you are to wake up next to someone who thinks you're the shit. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

You must fight social media fire with social media water. — Jay Baer

Interior of his purposes ... . It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest — Rick Warren

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener — Arnold Schoenberg

With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around. — Antoine Wilson

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies ... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story. — Viggo Mortensen

I'm guilty as sin, but hopefully I can persuade you otherwise by showing you something that's truthful and that casts me in a halo-like light that will convince you that someone like me could never do what I'm being accused of doing. — Philip Houston