Melodramatically Synonym Quotes & Sayings

When life hands you an ostrich...make a boa! ~Bertha — Jane Carroll

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism. — Rebecca West

People are afraid to write books because they fear people will read them and find them worthless. Write as if nobody is going to read and throw your work into the public dustbin. Somebody may find it and consider it treasure — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay. — Viola Davis

Branding is the art of differentiation — David Brier

If you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions. — John Of Kronstadt

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government. — Betty Hill

I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
It is always to leave the best untold."
-from "A Song of the Rolling Earth — Walt Whitman

Success comes in cans, not can'ts. — Brian Tracy

At the beginning of their work together Arthur Hibbert gave him a piece of advice he never forgot. "You must never write history," Hibbert said, "until you can hear the people speak." He thought about that for years, and in the end it came to feel like a valuable guiding principle for fiction as well. If you didn't have a sense of how people spoke, you didn't know them well enough, and so you couldn't - you shouldn't - tell their story. — Salman Rushdie

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row. — Artie Lange

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic. — Emmanuel Jal

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. — Abdoulaye Wade

The night was windy, full of tree sounds. The moon was gone and there was rain, so fine that it was only a tingle on the skin. — Marilynne Robinson

As the spiritual coordinator for this part of Tacoma, Celeste Chapeaux had been assigned to oversee Harry. — Debbie Macomber