Platitudinous Define Quotes & Sayings

... a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck. — Louisa May Alcott

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. — Homer

One cannot resist the lure of Africa. — Rudyard Kipling

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye — Stephen King

It is asked whether, in fact, the leader makes propaganda, or whether propaganda makes the leader. There is a widespread impression that a good press agent can puff up a nobody into a great man.
The answer is the same as that made to the old query as to whether the newspaper makes public opinion or whether public opinion makes the newspaper. There has to be fertile ground for the leader and the idea to fall on. But the leader also has to have some vital seed to sow. To use another figure, a mutual need has to exist before either can become positively effective. Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear. — Edward L. Bernays

The reason can make as much damage as passion. — Alberto Ferreras

And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all. — William Styron

Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the cool weak light the nightflames all had died, and the silent streets echoed death and desolation. Worlorn's day. Yet it was twilight. — George R R Martin

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present. — Edward Hallett Carr

Why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed.
"i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him.
"you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap! — James Patterson

That was a rhetorical question! Don't you even know what a rhetorical question is?"

Miles didn't know whether to answer. — Jory John

It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for. — Mick Dodson

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words. — Lydia Leonard