Periphrastic Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel. — Rosemary Mahoney

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone. — Yoko Ono

Happy the people whose annals are boring to read. — Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were. — Alastair Campbell

Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce ... in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with their intellect. Their ideas posses them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age. — William James

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge. — Seth Godin

It seemed to me that their love was based on their common need for order and mannerliness in their lives. Both had endured lives of chaos and incivility in their first marriages, and they provided each other with safe harbor at last. The town of Waterford had — Pat Conroy

Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me. — Robert Cato

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous. — Mark McKinnon

I learned long ago not to give a flying fuck what strangers thought about me. — Bijou Hunter

He who conquers other has force; he who conquers himself has strength. — Lao-Tzu

The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change. There — Ludwig Von Mises

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love. — P.D. James

My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener. — Wendy Harmer

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. — Moby