Matices In English Quotes & Sayings

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. So even before others have a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves. That is the way the human mind works. — Miguel Ruiz

I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating. — Nick Flynn

Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow) — Raymond Chandler

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all. — Julie Harris

Insufficient facts always invite danger. — Leonard Nimoy

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it ... Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance. — Ben Gibbard

I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies. — Cassandra Clare

If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation. — James Bessen

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me. — D.R. Silva