Presentiments Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is what we do; fate is what happens to us. — Marty Rubin

I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. — E. E. Cummings

What did it mean for us? Because everything I did, everything that happened to me, that was what I asked myself - what does this mean for us. It meant that I was farther away from you, different. It meant that if we let ourselves, we could get closer than we had ever been. Disappear into each other. You'd bleed and I wouldn't. Then we both would. — Francesca Lia Block

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. — Gerald Brenan

As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved. — Carol D. Leonnig

But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories of bone and substance and comedy there is only a river of lies, and sweet and delicious ones they are, too. We are the gatherers, the shepherds, the farmers of stories. We wander widely and look for them and gather them and harvest them and share them as food. It is a craft as necessary and nutritious as any other, and if you are going to be good at it you must double your humility and triple your curiosity and quadruple your ability to listen. — Brian Doyle

His love, his heart, Sir Christian Brandon. — Eli Easton

I have often thought of the postman's bringing me a letter as one of the pleasures I shall miss in heaven. — Elizabeth Gaskell

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts. — George Carman

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene. — Al Pacino

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've taken a break from judging others) you'll think "Oh! Where did MY happiness go?" because you were too busy thinking that gay people shouldn't be happy ... or, you know, something like that. — C. JoyBell C.

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that. — Agatha Christie

We need the world to hear more opinions, give glimpses into more diverse subcultures. — Felicia Day