Made Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to. — Aubrey De Grey

I think charity is like putting a plaster on a man with no skin. — Ben Brooks

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor. — Amanda Schull

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused. — Samuel Johnson

How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Her efforts received encouragement. In fact, they were welcomed as the Tallises began to understand that the baby of the family possessed a strange mind and a facility with words. The long afternoons she spent browsing through the dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were 'esoteric,' a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in 'shameless auto-exculpation,' the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a 'cursory' journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the 'hieroglyph' of his displeasure. — Ian McEwan

America needs to be secure at home and abroad. — Rick Larsen

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal

I was finally getting some answers, and I was scsred bleepless. — Kiersten White

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything. — Julien Smith

He shoved at me, tried to take control, but I was nothing if not made of stubborn. — Devon Monk

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. — Marc Almond

It is understandable how this shame came into being. The nation made the black man's color a stigma. Even linguistics and semantics conspire to give this impression. If you look in Roget's Thesaurus you will find about 120 synonyms for blacK, and right down the line you will find words like smut, something dirty, worthless, and useless, and then you look further and you find about 120 synonyms for white and they all represent something high, noble, pure, chaste - right down the line. In our language structure, a white lie is a little better than a black lie. Somebody goes wrong in the family and we don't call him a white sheep, we call him a black sheep. We don't say whitemail, but blackmail. We don't speak of white-balling somebody, but black-balling somebody. The word 'black' itself in our society connotes something that is degrading. It was absolutely necessary to come to a moment with a sense of dignity. It is very positive and very necessary. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy. — Ed Case