Prolixity Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact. — Ken Jennings

She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart. — Adam Johnson

While researchers are somewhat conflicted as to why exactly people look for security and comfort when afraid, this basic response is universal: fear leads people to want security and comfort, wherever and however they can find it. — Ryan T. Cragun

They first condemn that first advised the ill. — John Dryden

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured. — Bob Barr

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom. — Rajneesh

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself. — Robert Jordan

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia. — Ambrose Bierce

I think that church membership is a huge consideration, precisely because there is no such thing as a perfect church, and in our day and age in the West, we have so many options to choose from. Churches are full of sinners, so there will always be some messiness in a church. Churches are like families that way. So when a person stays in a church for a long period of time, there is evidence that she has been able to see that everything's not perfect, but she nevertheless said, I'm going to stay. I'm going to try to make this work. My commitment is more important than my desire to run away. — Matt Chandler

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters. — Amanda Seyfried

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line. — Daniel Yergin

His true intention becomes clear by the choice of people he interviewed: every one of them a conservative apologist! — Robert M. Price

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. — John Hurt