Juxtaposed Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

...More to the point, do their representatives and senators in Washington deliberately prioritize the stated requirement of the Pentagon and CIA above the most basic need of their constituents? Yes, if those legislators have developed the unfortunate tendency to go into a trance every time someone utter the magic phrase "national security." In truth, it happen often enough, and many times of the course of my career I saw Congress respond to that occult incantation like iron filing drawn to a magnet. p 64 — Mike Lofgren

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Close your eyes. Grab a hand. And jump! Your destiny is waiting for you at the bottom! — B.M. Hardin

Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate. — Neelie Kroes

It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons.
So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship. — Lundy Bancroft

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes? — Mick Jagger

People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.' — Elizabeth Banks

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. — Mark Pryor

She knew precious little about Lithuania, she realized, and her ideas had run along the lines of Soviet concrete ghettos, TB-infected prisons, and a callous mafia. Somehow, — Lene Kaaberbol

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. — John Selden

Fidel was in the middle of a much-publicised campaign against bureaucracy. A few weeks later, he was back on the podium: "Comrades, the campaign against bureaucracy has itself become bureaucratised," he thundered. — Mike Arkus

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself. — Mihail Sebastian

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. — James E. Faust

Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life — Sunday Adelaja