Offing Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. — Jane Jacobs

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff. — Tyler Blackburn

Even Pushkin, who could understand everything, did not grasp the real significance of Dead Souls. He thought that the author was grieving for Russia, ignorant, savage, and outdistanced by the other nations. But it is not only in Russia that Gogol discovers "dead souls." All men, great and small, seem to him lunatics, lifeless, automata which obediently and mechanically carry out commandments imposed on them from without. They eat, they drink, they sin, they multiply; with stammering tongue they pronounce meaningless words. No trace of free will, no sparkle of understanding, not the slightest wish to awake from their thousand-year sleep. — Lev Shestov

Hope does not leave without being given permission. — Rick Riordan

We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other. — P.D. James

Home is anywhere you're willing to stay - anywhere you're willing to make change — Joel Saunders Elmore

love is just a synonym for absinthe.
absinthe is a synonym for 'i don't
know what i'm doing anymore. — Salma Deera

If only marriage licenses came with a buyer's remorse clause.
~Detective Mike Malone — D.B. Woodling

The form of Christianity that developed in Europe and later spread to America and the rest of the world was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world. — Will Durant

The moonlight will guide me to the world of freedom. — Peach-Pit

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word. — Clarence Darrow

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize. — Bethenny Frankel

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied. — Peter Kreeft