Reformulating Quotes & Sayings

because if you want someone badly enough, morals (and certainly professionalism) don't come into it. You'll do anything to have them. He just doesn't want me badly enough. — Paula Hawkins

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent. — Dan Brown

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny. — Joseph Campbell

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock. — Peter Wollen

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not? — Epicurus

She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry. — Fay Weldon

He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it. — Mary Balogh

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s. — Emilie De Ravin

I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page. — Lisa Kleypas

Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The word "loser" follows you, bird-dogs you, sniffs you out of whatever fields you hide in because you have to face things clearly and you cannot turn away from what is true. — Pat Conroy

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery. — Chris Ware

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann

I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. — Michelle Obama

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood