Overblown Def Quotes & Sayings

They plummeted toward the volcano as their largest piece of luggage - the forty-foot-tall Athena Parthenos - trailed after them, leashed to a harness on Nico's back like a very ineffective parachute. — Rick Riordan

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth ... — Sinclair Lewis

We live in a world where your mistakes are usually seen over the right things you have done. — Irene Candungan

Fame must be received with gratitude and handled with humility. — Rupali Desai

There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well! — Bram Stoker

Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others. — Eknath Easwaran

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since. — L.M. Montgomery

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere. — Paul Hawken

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. — Rick Wakeman

I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened. — Alexa Vega

The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures. — Elizabeth Lesser

Not every relation has the same fate, not every relation has the same name, some relations are in our deepest desire which can never be fulfilled, but they ever remains in our heart for ever, ... there lies the purity of such relations ... — Debolina Bhawal

There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. — Robert Breault