Nonsynonymous Quotes & Sayings

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats. — Pankaj Mishra

I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave. — Michelle Huneven

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it. — George R R Martin

I love people who make me laugh.
I honestly think it's the
thing I like most,to
Laugh.
It cures a multitude of
Ills.
It's probably the most
Important thing in a
person ... — Audrey Hepburn

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. — Moshe Dayan

Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life. — Allan Bloom

We have a history," I say, "that no one can take from us. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what happens from here, it can't take away from the good thing we had. You were my first love, Demi. You only get one. — Winter Renshaw

After all, our souls are not judged by the sins we accumulate in life, but by the love we take with us after our life has ebbed away. — Alexandrea Weis

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I don't crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality. — Anton Corbijn

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart. — Pema Chodron

Crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked. — Chris Bohjalian

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK. — Ashley Greene