Offenses Synonym Quotes & Sayings

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake ... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.' — Soledad O'Brien

A brick could be used to help defeat all incumbent politicians whose last name starts with Brj and anything after that alphabetically. Since people tend to vote for the first one on the ballot, Brick would not only benefit from the stupidity of the citizenry, but the people would benefit by electing the smarter of the two candidates. — Jarod Kintz

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. — Ellen Gallagher

When something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired. — Therese De Lisieux

I disagree that our border is in devastating condition. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars. — John Steinbeck

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. — Samuel Foote

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever! — Winston Churchill

Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world. — Jane Addams

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology. — Douglas J. Futuyma

Paradox
/pera,daks/ noun
1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith. — Shannon L. Alder

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. — Ben Bernanke

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight. — Kate White