Pertinent Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry ... fear ... is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean? — Andy Andrews

She talks to me about regret, but what she doesn't realize is that even if she destroys me in the end, I'll never want to erase what we have. I'd never want to take back a single moment of this. — J.M. Darhower

And as you read, you are not conscious of the letters or even of the words or even of the syntax or the sentences and punctuation, but only of their meaning. As you listen to an address, phonemes disappear into words and words into sentences and sentences disappear into what they are trying to say, into meaning. To be conscious of the elements of speech is to destroy the intention of the speech. — Julian Jaynes

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there. — Michael Koryta

For how can a man without property know the ache of ownership? — John Steinbeck

Life is sexually transmitted. — Marianne Thamm

They had well-fed faces and laughter that was made cruel by its context the way a gem could be made ugly by being set in tin. — George R R Martin

Rick was proud of his sister. In situations where most girls would be a burden, she could more than hold her own. She could hike all day without complaint, and she was like a water sprite when it came to swimming. At tennis, although Rick had a much stronger drive, she gave him plenty of competition. And at badminton or ping-pong, where strength didn't count, she could run him ragged. She was a swell trail companion and her sense of adventure was as strong as his own. — John Blaine

You have to go after what you want. You have to know what you want. — Maggie Stiefvater

To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart.
Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern. — George MacDonald

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. — Barry Gibb