Smarmy Etymology Quotes & Sayings

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281) — Richard Baxter

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure - and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He — Arthur C. Clarke

It was time. One breath - another. She was the heir of fire. She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph. Aelin — Sarah J. Maas

Writing, like life itself,
is a voyage of discovery. — Henry Miller

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes. — Mike Nichols

I love you, Dallas. I just couldn't do a damn thing about it until now. — Kate Stewart

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations? — George Bernard Shaw

From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. — Victor Hugo

Ansel: Is it on?
John: It is on.
Shailene: Ansel paints miniatures.
John: Do you really paint miniatures?
Shailene: You're going to freak out when you see what he does.
Ansel: Do you paint miniatures too?
John: Miniature what? No, I'm sorry. Honest to
I'm sorry to disappoint you though. Miniature whats?
Shailene: Uh, miniature Godzillas.
Ansel: No I don't paint Godzillas. — John Green

Knock us out," Hook stated. "You got something exciting that'll trip our triggers, we'll drink it. Just as long as it's wet and cold. Got a long length of road down my throat and that always tastes good, but it's time to wash it away. — Kristen Ashley

You know math isn't my thing. — Carolyn J. Rose