Plight Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

What I think is important about essayists - about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view - is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way. — Meghan Daum

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience. — Daniel Kahneman

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon

I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark — Bennett Madison

If you are not on your path of purpose, you will only have misery in your life. — Bryant McGill

The genius of Shakespeare lay in his power to so use the real and individual facts of life as to raise in the minds of his readers a broader and nobler conception of human life than they had conceived before. This is creative genius; this is the idealist dealing faithfully with realistic material; this is, as we should say in our day, the work of the artist as distinguished from the work of the photographer. It may be an admirable but it is not the highest work of the sculptor, the painter, or the writer, that does not reveal to the mind - that comes into relation with it something before out of his experience and beyond the facts either brought before him or with which he is acquainted. — William Shakespeare

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy. — Martha Washington

Harold knew things. It was good that he did, but it was also rather spooky, as if they had a fifth-rate god traveling with them - more or less omniscient, but emotionally unstable and likely to fragment at any time. — Stephen King

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. — Brandon Boyd

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him. — Vince Gilligan

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn. — Sebastian Thrun

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said ... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it. — Anthony De Mello

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager. — Kathy Valentine

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil — Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the products I swear by is Sante Barley. — Piolo Pascual

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels. — Steven Tyler