Nonliteral Phrases Quotes & Sayings

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated. — Benoit Mandelbrot

It took only one gunshot. His brother and the canary were silenced forever, in front of his eyes ... — Refaat Alareer

She squeezed the left side of his face. — Rush Limbaugh

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air. — William Morris

I'll be here when you get back," Kane promised. He wasn't going anywhere. "Call me if you feel like talking. Text me if you don't." He smiled. "Either way, stay in touch. Please. — Avril Ashton

A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A piece that split you lip. — Patrick Ness

You will need to be brave and strong ... and patient, patient above all. — George R R Martin

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right. — C.V. Wedgwood

So you just wanted to congratulate me?" I smirk. "Well, thanks." -"Someone should," he says. "And I figured your friends might not be so congratulatory, since their ranks aren't as high... — Veronica Roth

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.
(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine") — Wendell Berry

A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created. — Charles Darwin

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work. — Bonnie Prudden