Forgone Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.
about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170 — Frank Huyler

Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, ability, or skill. It will make or break a business, a home, a friendship, an organization. The remarkable thing is I have a choice every day of what my attitude will be. I cannot change my past. I cannot change the actions of others. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can change is attitude. Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. — Charles R. Swindoll

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat? — Frank Zappa

You ever think about running again, it better be in my motherfucking direction. I'm the one you run to when shit goes down — Alexa Riley

I've sometimes thought that being loved a little less than others can actually make a person, rather than ruin them. — Paula McLain

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things. — John Ruskin

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio. — Kiri Te Kanawa

So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale. — Reginald De Koven

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. — Marcel Proust

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice. — George Papandreou

Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state
that makes people want to flee the Earth?"
- Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones,
"The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005 — Stephen Colbert

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. — Mary Wilson Little

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it. — C.L.R. James

Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible. — Billy Graham