Inanities Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe? — Marcel Theroux

Plain as a pike-staff. — Alain-Rene Lesage

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple. — Dhani Harrison

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. — Arthur Ashe

All this emphasis on youth - I don't buy it. Listen, I know what a misery being young can be, so don't tell me it's so great. All these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy, their sense that life was miserable, so bad they wanted to kill themselves ... and in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live everyday when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy - and you believe them! It's such nonsense. — Morrie Schwartz.

Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child. — Warren Farrell

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey. — W.C. Fields

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. — Jeffrey Jones

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. — B.B. King

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read. — Emilia Clarke

The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose. — Debasish Mridha