Non Confrontational Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

The mandate of God to man, believers and unbelievers alike is that they should manage the earth for God. — Sunday Adelaja

The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht

You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done. — Diyar Harraz

Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon the global Scale, Enterprisers and Quacks, - these are the last poor fallen and feckless inheritors of a knowledge they can never use, but in the service of Greed. — Thomas Pynchon

See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you. — David Whyte

She'd hated spending the daylight hours away from him, hated the distance between them, and she wasn't letting it go on anymore on her side. — J.R. Ward

I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from all this "diversity" claptrap. It's not as if we'll all go down to the Civic Center in our ethnic costumes and dance around. — Richard Rodriguez

Is it possible to envision a nation of effectual governance at each level, and thoughtful candidates and office-holders who understand that Washington, America's central government, no longer works well? Ironically, those who want a central
government to do more and more are asking for a central government that does less and less well, while piling up debt that is passed on to the next generation. — Al Sikes

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. — J.B. Morton

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio. — John F. Kennedy

Both fear and love might cause obedience, but only love causes joy. — Jefferson Bethke

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway. — Steve Zahn

A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of the essential. Neither criticism nor activity, however, can steer the course in such a direction - this means that higher forces are involved. — Ernst Junger

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. — Richard Ernst