Infelicitous Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me. — Larry David

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles slightly, but that's all. — Walter Kirn

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong. — Bryan Adams

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions. — Jerry A. Fodor

While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution. — Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go. — Samantha Fox

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. — Alan Kay

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness. — Mencius

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. — Henry Hazlitt

I, who was empty ... I made myself believe that I could only fill it.. by falling in love ... at that time to me.. in this world around you, Nana ... Everything was so shiny that I was blinded. That doesn't mean that anyone would suit me ... I just wanted to be in the same light as you. — Ai Yazawa

Women in the world will have been beaten or raped in their lifetime and everyday violence requires that women always be alert to this possibility. A crone is a woman who has found her voice. She knows that silence is consent. This is a quality that makes older women feared. It is not the innocent voice of a child who says, "the emperor has no clothes," but the fierce truthfulness of the crone that is the voice of reality. Both the innocent child and the crone are seeing through the illusions, denials, or "spin" to the truth. But the crone knows about the deception and its consequences, and it angers her. Her fierceness springs from the heart, gives her courage, makes her a force to be reckoned with. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it. — Rolando Mithcell

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth. — Marty Rubin

It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest. — Jeanette Winterson