Retentissant Synonyme Quotes & Sayings

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing. — Etta James

Yes.' Her throat tightened. 'But my father is a clergyman.'

Mrs. Turrill brought her face near, and looked solemnly into her eyes. 'Yes. she agreed. 'But the clergyman is also a father. — Julie Klassen

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning. — Robin Hobb

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. — Frances Moore Lappe

When we are kind and passionate to others, we become compassionate, this is one of the bases for uni-consciousness. — Debasish Mridha

No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or elsewhere. And, anyway, cases of men in their forties marrying girls in their teens or early twenties have no bearing on Lolita whatever. Humbert was fond of "little girls" - not simply "young girls." Nymphets are girl-children, not starlets and "sex kittens." Lolita was twelve, not eighteen, when Humbert met her. You may remember that by the time she is fourteen, he refers to her as his "aging mistress. — Vladimir Nabokov

No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners. — Anni Sennov

Patience is not my dominant virtue.
D'Artagnan — Alexandre Dumas

Watching either, one knew that the world would never again be the same; the risks everywhere, to which life was heir, had been changed on the morning of a new unclouded day. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki announced that the United States was henceforth the supreme armed power in the world. The attack of 11 September announced that this power was no longer guaranteed invulnerability on its home ground. The two events mark the beginning and end of a certain historical period. Concerning — John Berger

Success is always the result of following the leading of the Holy Spirit. — Kenneth E. Hagin

An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not cope with these challenges. A widening public disaffection for the political Establishment opened the way for an "antipolitics" that the extreme Right could satisfy better than the far Left after 1989. After the Marxist Left lost credibility as a plausible protest vehicle when the Soviet Union collapsed, the radical Right had no serious rivals as the mouthpiece for the angry "losers" of the new postindustrial, globalized, multiethnic Europe. — Robert O. Paxton