Misaimed Synonym Quotes & Sayings

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions. — Richard Dawkins

Who knew that insanity came in hot flashes? — Deborah Cooke

For the rest of her life, hope was going to smell a little bit like bacon. — Debora Geary

Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special. — Garry Shandling

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't think I'm destined for love. — Michaela MacColl

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility. — Aristotle.

Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern. — Bill Bryson

Why bother reading something that you won't remember? — Jonathan Nolan

The failure to read the Holy Bible leads to spiritual depletion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, 'I'm in love with a man and I can't have him.' But that would only lead to questions she couldn't answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing. — Abigail Reynolds