Figurative Language 1984 Quotes & Sayings

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. — Oliver Goldsmith

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power? — Thomas Higgons

The difference of somebody of winning and losing, has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential. — Greg Plitt

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle. — Sara Miles

For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry. — Dave Barry

Past question, every experience is serviceable to us. Where got Ben-Hur the large hand and mighty grip which helped him now so well? Where but from the oar with which so long he fought the seas? And what was this spring of the floor under his feet to the dizzy lurch with which in the old time the trembling ship yielded to the beat of staggering billows, drunk with their power? So he kept his place, and gave the four free rein, and called to them in soothing voice, trying merely to guide them round the dangerous turn; and before the fever of the people began to abate, he had back the mastery. — Lew Wallace

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined. — Learned Hand