Macmillans Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible. — George H. Smith

For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all the ingredients together, you can never oversee what it's gonna taste exactly. So while you're doing that, you're tasting. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better. — Martin Luther

Guard your good mood. — Meryl Streep

I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters. — David LaChapelle

I think men will always be arrested on some level by the idea of owning their spouse, of completely possessing the woman they love, of having her unquestioning trust and obedience and admiration. But most importantly, of actually being a man that deserves it all. And I think women - though they are loathe to admit it - fundamentally want to be possessed. — Penny Reid

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest — E. Urner Goodman

Reality is hopelessly inaccurate. — Douglas Adams

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go. — Zig Ziglar

I am grateful for all the chances I took which lead to a great paths. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We saw this cross-level coherence in the analysis of personality: If your lower-level traits match up with your coping mechanisms, which in turn are consistent with your life story, your personality is well integrated and you can get on with the business of living. When these levels do not cohere, you are likely to be torn by internal contradictions and neurotic conflicts.34 You might need adversity to knock yourself into alignment. And if you do achieve coherence, the moment when things come together may be one of the most profound of your life. Like the moviegoer who later finds out what she missed in the first half hour, your life will suddenly make more sense. Finding coherence across levels feels like enlightenment,35 and it is crucial for answering the question of purpose within life. — Jonathan Haidt

might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he — Michael Connelly

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors. — Stanley Fish