Smoother Synonym Quotes & Sayings

I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything. — Natalie Maines

Eternity, I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond. — Tima Maria Lacoba

Intelligence resembles insanity only on the stupid. — Harry Harrison

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality. — Georges St-Pierre

Men learn while they teach. — Seneca The Younger

There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices? — Tom Cunningham

I guess I just believed that I had moved beyond my old self. And now ... I find that I can't escape the mistakes I've made.
So redemption didn't save you from consequence?
No. It didn't, I whispered. And that was it. Redemption hadn't saved me from consequence. And I felt betrayed. I felt like the love that had been poured over me had been withdrawn before I'd had a chance to prove I was worthy of it. — Amy Harmon

His days passed like this, slow and methodical. And then one morning he saw her. She had brown hair and blue eyes and red shoes and a big yellow clasp in her hair.
And then there was no more peace and quiet for Ove. — Fredrik Backman

I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept. — Anne Lamott

We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line. — Gini Koch

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away. — Geoffrey Zakarian

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. — Mike Wallace

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love. — Iris Murdoch