Ominous Positivity Quotes & Sayings

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J.L. Austin

The addict, alone among humans, is given something that is always new. — Michael W. Clune

Wind is a plant's only chance to make music. — Peter Steinhart

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door. — Lesley Gore

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized. — Hermann Hesse

Political leaders are a reflection of our society. — Sukant Ratnakar

Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee. — Grace Steele Woodward

Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts of his novels without impairing his status as a writer. But we could not remove Mrs. Gamp or Pecksniff or Bounderby without maiming him irreparably. — John Carey

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving. — John Keats

I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement. — Tina Fey

I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic. — Michael Keaton

We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and the bastards always talk about the purity of the race. National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. — Umberto Eco

The eyes are the amulets of the mind. — Bill Vaughan