Flatted Ended Quotes & Sayings

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business. — Oliver Goldsmith

We are saved not as souls but as wholes. (All — N. T. Wright

It's good to have a friend. Even if you're going to die. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again." — Gwen Stefani

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises. — Nujood Ali

Lany couldn't resist his appearance and stared at him from head to toe. — Pet Torres

She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped. — Nick Hornby

One thing will not change - we will be going out to win. — David Beckham

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do. — Lenny Jacobson

There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight.

~Edward Elric — Hiromu Arakawa

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin. — Clint Howard

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena. — Vaclav Havel

Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish, of the Mexican war as seen by the deserting soldiers of Scott's army, of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America. And so on, to the limited extent that any one person, however he or she strains, can "see" history from the standpoint of others. — Howard Zinn

I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me. — Taylor Swift