Promptly Define Quotes & Sayings

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away. — Gail Collins

Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?"
"Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious ... — J.K. Rowling

I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown. — Kathryn Budig

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody. — Keith O'Brien

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it. — Anson Mount

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford

But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed. Whatever be the soil, climate, or extent of territory of any particular nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must, in that particular situation, depend upon those two circumstances. — Adam Smith

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies. — Warren Farrell

There are days that walk through me and I cannot hold them. — Katherine Larson