Relenting Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Oil's been pretty darned good to us," she said. "I don't want a smaller house. I don't want to drive a smaller car. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W. Sill

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful. — John Benjamin Hickey

He was a king. This was the year he was going to die. — Maggie Stiefvater

When Mr. Lippmann says that the founders of our free institutions were adherents of the philosophy of natural law, and that 'the free political institutions of the Western world were conceived and established' by men who held certain abstract beliefs, he speaks with the shortened perspective of an American way of thinking in which a manner of conducting affairs is inconceivable without an architect and without a premeditated 'dedication to a proposition.' But the fact is that nobody ever 'founded these institutions.' They are the product of innumerable human choices, over long stretches of time, but not of any human design. — Michael Oakeshott

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. — Robert Casey

You seem ... unsettled." Was "unsettled" another word for horny enough to climb the walls? Because if so, then yes, I was most definitely unsettled. — Jay Crownover

She stared at him, horrified. And thrilled. And horrified at being thrilled. — Tessa Dare

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven. — John Cleese

Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one. — Tom Platz

We can good deed by God's grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita