Parenthetical Phrase Quotes & Sayings

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by. — Thomas Carlyle

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover. — Rita Rudner

On Kim Kardashian: I think she's cute. And, no, she's not too old for me. Above 40 is a little too old for me. — Justin Bieber

Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny. — Ronnie Apteker

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God. — Philip Yancey

Haggis is a brand of nappies.' I said. 'They're good, we used them for our daughter.'
'Haggis is a kind of food too,' said Semyon, shaking his head. 'Although as far as taste goes, there's probably not much difference. — Sergei Lukyanenko

She smiles, but her eyes are glassy, like a dormant part of her is fighting its way out and spilling over. The train hisses over the rails, a tear drops down Tris's cheek, and the city disappears into the darkness. — Veronica Roth

I deal with writer's block by lowering my expectations. I think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent - and when you don't, panic sets in. The solution is never to sit down and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent. I write a little bit, almost every day, and if it results in two or three or (on a good day) four good paragraphs, I consider myself a lucky man. Never try to be the hare. All hail the tortoise. — Malcolm Gladwell

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view — Nathaniel Hawthorne

But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again. — Larry McMurtry

I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments. — Byron Katie

When I say it's hard to believe in Jesus, I mean it's hard to believe in Jesus's ideas - in his way of saving the world. For Christians it's not hard to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity - all the Christological stuff the church hammered out in the first five centuries. That's not hard for us. What's hard is to believe in Jesus as a political theologian. It's hard because his ideas for running the world are so radically different from anything we are accustomed to. — Brian Zahnd