Proverbially Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Speaking the words aloud so they would exist in the world and begin to become real. — Augusten Burroughs

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do. — J. R. Martinez

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. — William Cowper

I'm afraid you're going to have to make a choice. — Stephenie Meyer

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. — George Orwell

So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love - perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings. — Sharon Salzberg

You can never look that tough in glasses ... You never see somebody push up their glasses and say, "I'm gonna kick your ass." — Jim Gaffigan

He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the same man who invented both an early kind of computer and the cow catcher, a device attached to the front of locomotives to clear debris from train tracks. He learns that Babbage once wrote to Alfred Tennyson to correct two lines from one of Tennyson's poems, which Babbage felt lacked scientific accuracy. This, thinks Jonas, tells you everything you need to know about both the man and the invention of forms. — Stephen Dau

A young Tibetan child touches his head to the floor before the altar and recites a prayer, and I am led to a moment of contentment. This too is part of our struggle as Tibetans: to remind our children and ourselves that we are Tibetan. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

[M]an [has] the power of abstraction from himself[.] — Ludwig Feuerbach

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change. — Thomas L. Friedman