Pollyannish Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. — Frank Rich

God is love, at times we forget that we're human perhaps with common frailties and flaws. Love is the ability to accept this without judgement. — Monica Chrisandtras Hines

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky

Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind. — Michelangelo

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. — Ford Madox Ford

The difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same. — Pema Chodron

Gray is the color ... the most important of all ... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. — Gerhard Richter

There is no such thing as evil in the world of science. There are only those who discover and are remembered, and those who do not and are forgotten. — S.C. Barrus

When you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope — Laurell K. Hamilton

So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe they're not quite as cynical as that and there's some sincerity about them, but they don't really get it so they just imitate what they've seen from people who've done it before and of course you can make big money that way. — Brad Warner

Every season, really, has their own chemistry. — Tom Ford

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. — Harry Truman

Can we go out sometime? Or, I mean, I mean ... Can we maybe just hang out? Can we get to know each other? You're new in town, right? I've lived here forever
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I mean ... there are ... reasons ... for you to hang out with me? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Clumsy in your compliments, or perhaps it is your eyesight which has grown clumsy?" "Only — Rose Gordon

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion. — Voltaire