Overused Old Quotes & Sayings

It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like. — Fred Green

He wanted to laugh. Only, the sound wouldn't come out. He couldn't summon even a wry humor, not anymore. Light! I can't keep this up. My eyes see as if in a fog, my hand is burned away, and the old wounds in my side rip open if I do anything more strenuous than breathe. I'm dry, like an overused well. I need to finish my work here and get to Shayol Ghul.
Otherwise, there won't be anything left of me for the Dark One to kill.
That wasn't a thought to cause laughter; it was one to cause despair. But Rand did not weep, for tears could not come from steel.
For the moment, Lews Therin's cries seemed enough for both of them. — Robert Jordan

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you. — Richard Steele

It's amazing when you think about it, all the possibilities, the things that might happen in this brief life if you're brave enough to try. — Suzanne Supplee

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If karma comes for me today...I plan on shooting the bitch right between the eyes. — Suzanne Steele

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. — John F. Kennedy

I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it. — Chuck Klosterman

She say Fon people keep a spirit tree and it always be a Baybob. Your granny-mauma wrapped the trunk with thread she begged and stole. She took me out there and say, 'We gon put our spirits in the tree so they safe from harm.' We kneel on her quilt from Africa, nothing but a shred now, and we give our spirits to the tree. She say our spirits live in the tree with the birds, learning to fly. She told me, 'If you leave this place, go get your spirit and take it with you.' We used to gather up leaves and twigs from round the tree and stick 'me in pouches to wear at our necks. — Sue Monk Kidd

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back. — Annie Ernaux

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough. — Ayrton Senna

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me. — Robin Lord Taylor

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it. — Anais Nin

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Anyway, then it said on the news, 'And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten.'
I looked down at Jas and said, 'Ooer.' Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons.
Vati just looked at us like we were mad. — Louise Rennison

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice. — Albert Einstein