Straw Person Examples Quotes & Sayings

Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million. — Katie McGarry

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? — Nicolas Cage

Any supreme insight is a metaphor. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. — Karen Armstrong

You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead. — Cameron Diaz

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies. — G.K. Chesterton

You're going to wear that?" Jackson lifted his chin, indicating my outfit. I glanced down at myself. Seeing nothing wrong with my blue jeans, hiking boots, and long-sleeved purple Henley with the top four buttons undone. I returned Jackson's scowl with a frown. "And what's wrong with what I'm wearing?" "Your shirt is half undone, your boobs are busting out, and those jeans are awfully tight." I crossed my arms under my chest and glared at my brother. "Are you calling me fat?" "No. I'm saying that outfit doesn't leave much to the imagination. I don't want that Winston boy getting ideas." Meanwhile, I wanted Duane to get lots of ideas. — Penny Reid

I was dying when you came. — Victor Hugo

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles

Wait, don't despair,
Have faith and hopeful,
Who wait and don't despair,
The reward awaits. — Miguel El Portugues

The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. — Iyanla Vanzant

Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace to Islamic civilization but also directly resulted in the sack of Byzantium, the retardation of Europe, and the massacre of the Jews. — Christopher Hitchens

That word, calm, sounds impossibly beautiful, gloriously uncomplicated. A water-smooth word, a word that can take the edge away from fear, gloss it over, make it shiny. Calm. Gentle. — Ally Condie