Placated Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery. — Tanith Lee

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage. — Jerry Yang

But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life. — Wally Lamb

We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real. — Neale Donald Walsch

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality. — Baron De Montesquieu

My friends esteem me; I often contribute to their happiness, and my heart seems as if it could not beat without them; and yet - - if I were to die, if I were to be summoned from the midst of this circle, would they feel - or how long would they feel the void which my loss would make in their existence? How long! Yes, such is the frailty of man, that even there, where he has the greatest consciousness of his own being, where he makes the strongest and most forcible impression, even in the memory, in the heart, of his beloved, there also he must perish - vanish - and that quickly. October — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk

For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours. — John Wesley

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. — Lionel Hampton

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want. — Eleanor Mondale

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me ... people i'd know for years started treating me differently. — Malcolm Wilson

The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever. — Markus Zusak

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master. — Lev Polugaevsky

All this time, I thought it was her weight that made me see her.

But it's not her weight at all.

It's her. — Jennifer Niven

The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines. — Loretta Gatto-White