Showcased Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all. — Nicholas Lemann

It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to be perfect. That is a noble thing, but you have to realize there is no perfect. We're human. — James L. Jones

For the scholar no effort is ever wasted. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Thou shalt remake the world — Jandy Nelson

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. — David Korten

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth. — Mimi Kennedy

I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous — Jase Robertson

I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.' — Heather Graham

American society is uncomfortable with the idea that some people's lives are difficult past the point of sanity and that they aren't necessarily to blame. There's no way you can argue that everyone has a difficult life. This is an incredible culture; the majority of people live in amazing comfort, with real dignity, maybe more comfort and dignity than any other culture in the history of the world. We live relatively safe and sane lives, which, if you've ever loved anybody and therefore feared for them, is a wonderful thing. But part of our moral responsibility is to keep in our minds those whose lives are unsafe and insane. In this way, fiction can be like a meditation, a way of saying: Though things are this way for me right now, they could be different later and are different for others this very moment. — George Saunders