Rivaled Def Quotes & Sayings

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying. — Domhnall Gleeson

I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme? ... — John Geddes

Ah," said Magnus. "Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated. — Cassandra Clare

Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine. — Gabrielle Reece

Unlike those in power here on CIEL, reproduction wasn't what we mourned. We mourned the carnal. Societies may be organized around procreation, but individuals are animals. I think we craved her sexuality -- her sexual reality. The fact of her body. Not particularly female, leaning toward male, an exquisite androgyny. Her head of thick black hair a mighty emblem of desire. — Lidia Yuknavitch

If the politicization of art and education represents one large part of the counterculture's legacy, the coarsening of feeling and sensibility is another. No phenomenon has done more to advance this coarsening than rock music. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of rock music to the agenda of the cultural revolution. It is also impossible to overstate its soul-deadening destructiveness. The most reviled part of Allan Bloom's book The Closing of the American Mind was his chapter criticizing the effects of rock. But Bloom was right in insisting that rock music is a potent weapon in the arsenal of emotional anarchy. The triumph of rock was not only an aesthetic disaster of giant proportions: it was also a moral disaster whose effects are nearly impossible to calculate precisely because they are so pervasive. — Roger Kimball

Identify the areas in which you are most likely to add unique value to your organization - something no one else can match - then leverage your skills to their absolute max. That's what your employer expected when he put you on the payroll! More importantly, leveraging yourself generates the greatest and most satisfying return on your God-given abilities. — Andy Stanley

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. — Francine Mathews

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure. — Alexander Hanson

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason. — Luigina Sgarro

Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it. — K.Michelle

We are all mediators, translators. — Jacques Derrida

The more we communicate with God, the shorter the distance to the long distance call! He never has voicemail on! EL — Evinda Lepins

Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. — Dan Howell

I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not. — Erica Bauermeister