Similarily Quotes & Sayings

I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving. — Candy Lightner

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. — Anthony Trollope

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C.S. Lewis

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones. — Aristotle.

Her eyes are closed when I reach the couch again. She looks so peaceful just lying there. I watch her for a moment, wishing I knew what the hell was going through her head, but I refuse to ask. I can carve pumpkins just as well as she can. — Colleen Hoover

Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation. — Napoleon Hill

Dr. Charles came to visit me one last time.
"Have you thought about what I told you?"
"Yup," I said.
"And?"
"And I think you made a really good decision by becoming a surgeon. You would have made a lousy therapist. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them. — Susan Glaspell

If you debate the wise,
no matter how poor,
they will hearken to wisdom.
If you debate the foolish,
no matter how rich,
they will mock wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nine men in ten are suicides. — Benjamin Franklin

God is my desire — Leo Tolstoy

But how do you know?" "Because it's our book, Cassie. Yours and mine. This is our story, and I'll be damned if I let it end badly." I — Max Monroe

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job. — Douglas Leone

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Gautama Buddha