Prostrating Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Because you may find yourself in a very bad position, Rohinmey," Dasai said. "If things go wrong, I do not want you to fight. I want you to live. — Kameron Hurley

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. — Mahatma Gandhi

[Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore. — Jenna McCarthy

Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated. — Chirag Tulsiani

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity. — Tom Peters

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions. — Rene Descartes

I now own your body, your mind, your soul," he whispered. "You are mine to do as I please. I am your master, your god, your nightmare. — Marita A. Hansen

Who would have imagined a creature that has lived thousands of years would find itself short of time. — Mike Mehalek

Russia, Russia unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come. — George F. Kennan

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it. — John Sterling

Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace. — Georgi Y. Johnson