Normally Synonym Quotes & Sayings

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything. — Bradley Whitford

For it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. — Victor Hugo

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing. — Amber Heard

Everything one used to take for granted, with so much certainty that one never even bothered to enquire about it, now turns out to be illusion. Your certainties are proven lies. And what happens if you start probing? Must you learn a wholly new language first?
'Humanity'. Normally one uses it as a synonym for compassion; charity; decency; integrity. 'He is such a human person.' Must one now go in search of an entirely different set of synonyms: cruelty; exploitation; unscrupulousness; or whatever? — Andre Brink

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born. — Rumer Godden

I would go to jail with only boys. Just to prove I was as tough as you. And when I get out for good behavior, I'll be writing love songs. Silly banging knee songs. — Sara Quin

Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity. — Sharon Salzberg

Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.) — Christopher Hitchens

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago. — Stephanie Cutter