Litotes Examples Churchill Quotes & Sayings

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do. — Roald Dahl

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. — Patrick DeWitt

organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones. — Patrick Lencioni

If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. - Hebrews 12:8 — Gary Chapman

While reading Emotionally Wounded Spiritually Strong washing clothes taday I got up to page 52-54 and I had to stop for a sech it brought tears to my eyes to think how the devil had a plan on my family from the beginning. How PPL thought we were the perfect family. Thank God for Jesus. — Tarran Carter

Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever. — Paul Kingsnorth

Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh. — Rajneesh

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. — Alice Hamilton

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player. — Elliott Abrams

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so. — Jorge Luis Borges

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it ... — Lisa Randall

The man sitting across from me at the cafe was thinking about murdering his wife.
He imagined stabbing her and pretending like it was a robbery. Or perhaps, he thought, he'd take her hiking, push her off a cliff and say it was an accident; that she'd slipped. I wanted to tell him it wouldn't work, that in those CSI shows on T.V. they always suspected the husband first. — Lori Brighton

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched. — Michelle Forbes

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. — Anthony Powell

When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything. — Henri Charriere