Merriam Websters Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks. — Hal Borland

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills. — Ron Suskind

'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience. — Cynthia Kadohata

He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than forced conversation. — Christina Lauren

And roads, new roads probing endlessly, shamelessly, as though all that mattered was to be elsewhere. — Ian McEwan

Dedicated to readers like Penryn who have it tough at home, who had to grow up fast due to life circumstances, and who have no idea how much potential they really have. You are being fire forged, just like Penryn. And like her, you can turn your greatest trials into your greatest strengths. — Susan Ee

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it's been waiting for you. — James Turrell

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39) — Ravi Ravindra

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. — Agnes Macphail