Resonate Define Quotes & Sayings

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. — E. E. Cummings

The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started. — Dawson Trotman

Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized. — Kylie Scott

The Chicken: As I was walking down Stanton Street early one Sunday morning, I saw a chicken a few yards ahead of me. I was walking faster than the chicken, so I gradually caught up. By the time we approached Eighteenth Avenue, I was close behind. The chicken turned south on Eighteenth. At the fourth house along, it turned in at the walk, hopped up the front steps, and rapped sharply on the metal storm door with its beak. After a moment, the door opened and the chicken went in. (Linda Elegant, Portland, Oregon) — Paul Auster

If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self ... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations. — William Greider

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy ... like personages. — Julian Schnabel

For the worst of it was not the lies that after all he was unable to utter, ready as he always was to lie for pleasure but incapable of doing so out of necessity, the worst of it was the delights he had lost, the season's light and the time off that had been taken away from him, and now the year consisted of nothing but a series of hasty awakenings and hurried dismal days. He had to lose what was royal in his life of poverty, the irreplaceable riches that he so greatly and gluttonously enjoyed, to earn a little bit of money that would not buy one-millionth of those treasures. — Albert Camus

If some one tells you that so and so speaks ill of you, do not defend yourself against what he says, but answer, 'He did not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned these alone.' It — Marcus Aurelius

Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off — Sofia Vergara

One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by. — Johan Cruyff

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. — Rick Riordan

He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home. — Adam Haslett

Love can really look strange in the Point. In fact, if you aren't paying attention you might miss it altogether because it doesn't look like love at all. — Jay Crownover