Students Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. — Edmund Burke

Although crimes may win an empire, they do not win glory. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private. — Michel De Montaigne

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. — James Joyce

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first. — Garson Kanin

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers.
'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women. — Melina Marchetta

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny. — James Merrick

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe. — George MacDonald

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women. — Anne Heche

If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey? — Christopher Moore

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true. — Erin Morgenstern

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene ... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit. — Tommy Lee Jones

Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever. — Aristotle.

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. — Mary Pipher