Ponderous Synonym Quotes & Sayings

And we are wild animals too, of course. We forget that. We're just mammals with attitude. In a lot of ways our skills pale before their skills, and in a lot of ways we are terrible at fitting into our environmental niche. Why we achieved this dominance is sometimes a mystery to me, and a dangerous dominance it is too. The whole point of our evolution, it seems to me, is for us to find a way to fit back into the world as it is, rather than try to remake the world to fit us, but not everybody thinks like me — Brian Doyle

The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, 'Call me Flash.' — Michael Rosenbaum

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. — Barton Gellman

I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy. — David Ignatius

The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself. The wrong is the condition which suppresses man, perverts the flowing out of his love and creative instinct. Tragedy enlightens-and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies. — Arthur Miller

In my poems I could not shut the door to the street. — Pablo Neruda

Yes, Miss Masters, but walking is also a way to announce who you are." Gideon waved one arm impassionedly. "How you view yourself in the world. The way you hold yourself, the way you move, how you occupy a space, tells other people a good deal about you," ~from To Love a Thief — Julie Anne Long

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again. — Martha Wells

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either. — David Levithan

heredity, but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area — Ben Carson

It is because you have loved me that I know how to love others — Sathnam Sanghera

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. — Elsa Maxwell

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun. — Vinessa Shaw

Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to min,
His furniture is love. — Emily Dickinson