Reevaluated Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round" ... Both men and women can be vain about their appearances, selfish about money, overawed by rank, and limited by parochialism; both men and women can function capably, think profoundly, feel deeply, create imaginatively, laugh wittily, and love faithfully. Without vindicating the rights of anyone directly, Austen posits a humanism far ahead of her time. "How really modern she is, after all," Welty concludes of Austen. — Emily Auerbach

But inside itself, in the very sap of it, the tree (so to speak) never forgot that other tree in Narnia to which it belonged. Sometimes it would move mysteriously when there was no wind blowing: I think that when this happened there were high winds in Narnia and the English tree quivered.... However that might be, it was proved later that there was still magic in its wood. For when Digory was quite middle-aged...there was a great storm all over the south of England which blew the tree down. He couldn't bear to have it simply chopped up for firewood, so he had part of the timber made into a wardrobe, which he put in his big house in the country. And though he himself did not discover the magic properties of that wardrobe, someone else did.... — C.S. Lewis

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company. — Graeme Murphy

Sometimes when you build walls you don't realize that other people can see through them. It's yourself you've harmed because you can't see out. — Marilyn Grey

The one thing that all successful people have in common is persistence, — Garr Reynolds

I think Miller is better looking than that guy," Sunny says. "Yeah, but you have an unusual affinity for yetis, so that's not really a surprise. — Helena Hunting

Your views of God and self are not small ideas of little consequence. — Joe Thorn

I wondered whether you and Mr. Locke had any recollection about the past.
I see now that we all suffer the same. — Nathan Reese Maher

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it. — Mark Twain

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences? — Nat King Cole