Regraded Def Quotes & Sayings

The park's so dark by kindlelight. But look what you have in your handself! — James Joyce

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that, — Gene Sharp

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit. — Jean-Pierre Rives

One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many. — Theresa May

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. — Mignon McLaughlin

How could she remain angry with him, this man whom she loved so much? — Sarah Price

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is. — Sherwood Smith

You realize that by doing this, all you're accomplishing is reinforcing in America-throughout the world- that the word different means bad, ugly, dangerous. — Alexandra Bracken

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it. — Mario Cuomo

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days. — Gabrielle Union

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Calling it an experiment gives you permission to fail. — A. J. Jacobs

The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would ... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible. — Alan Furst

If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.". — Ken Robinson