Measly Synonym Quotes & Sayings

But only a few have the will -- be it born of courage or recklessness, folly or sublime wisdom -- to act and, by their action, transform themselves. They will pay for their courage, of course; the world does not treat its "others" lightly. But so will the rest of us -- the ones who love them -- haunted as we are by our envy of their bright, burning beauty, which we can bear neither to look at nor to turn away from. — Ed Tarkington

All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why I like the beach ... — William Boyd

The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did? — Becca Fitzpatrick

You see, I think love comes from God. And so, to turn away from love, real love, it could be argued, is to turn away from God. — Patty Campbell

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle. — Ingrid Law

Peace is truth, trust, and harmony. Peace is joy, love, and great care. — Debasish Mridha

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences. — Rupert Graves

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself. — Eve Ensler

And before they ate the last supper of life-ending mushrooms, they would pound the drums and sound the hours. They would ready the souls of their bodies, the soul of the eyes, the soul of the mouths, all of them, one by one. They would know to be ready, to not dillydally and get left behind. Soon the soldiers would arrive. They would stab them with their bayonets, shoot them with their rifles, but they would already be gone, their bodies empty like the hollow husks of the emeralds beetles. — Amy Tan

Broken hearts mend but souls forever fight the battle. — Jay Long

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith. — Penn Jillette

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it. — Sarah Dessen

The true nature of the world is veiled, and if you shine a bright light on it, you can't expose that truth; it melts away with the shadows in which it was cloaked. The truth is too awesome for us to stare directly at it, and we are meant to glimpse it only at the periphery of our vision. If the landscape of your mind is too dark with fear or doubt or anger, you are blind to all truth. But if your mental landscape is too bright with certitude and arrogance, you are snow-blind and likewise unable to see what lies before you. — Dean Koontz