Spurious Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

My advice is, the next time you see someone you think you need to rescue, walk quickly away on the far side of the street. — Elizabeth Moon

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. — Epicurus

Believing takes practice. — Madeleine L'Engle

This was hell and I was its fury. — Ilona Andrews

I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Change will come into my room and rearrange my tidy world. Then like dominoes, one things changed falls upon another until it feels like the world is collapsing around me. But when I yield, when I surrender to the necessary change, I can stand back and look at the beautiful picture created by what seemed to be my world falling apart. — Stella Payton

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements. — Marian Wright Edelman

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach. — Irving Kirsch

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then. — Adam Oates

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men. — John F. Kennedy

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes. — Jorge Luis Borges

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken ... a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. — Nahoko Uehashi

Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy. — Douglas Adams

In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son. — Chuck Palahniuk

"Spirituality comes from questioning everything but at the same time accepting everything. You can even be spiritual watching TV. When the ad comes on and says, "Don't hate me because I am beautiful," question that." — K.d. Lang

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him. — Mark Twain