Subsample Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

The United States, adopted by Congress on June 14, 1777, had thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, each — Joey Green

Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too. — Terrell Owens

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! — Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. — Toni Morrison

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged. — Al Goldstein

Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love. Before — Cal Newport

In vain I warned other Arab leaders, those pleasure-seeking gluttons who only listen to the fawning and simpering of those who owe them favors. There was a full complement of them at Cairo, lined up like onions, spying on each other on the sly, half of them so conceited they could not stop behaving like constipated patriarchs, the other half too thick to be able to look serious. Arrivistes who thought they had really arrived, comic-opera presidents unable to shake off their country-bumpkin reflexes, petrodollar emirs looking like rabbits straight out of the magician's hat, sultans wrapped in their robes like ghosts, disgusted at the blathering eulogies the speakers were trotting out ad infinitum. Why were they there? They cared for nothing that did not concern their personal fortunes. Busy stuffing their pockets, they refused to look up to see how dizzyingly fast the world was changing or how tomorrow's storm clouds of hate were gathering on the horizon. — Yasmina Khadra

Her supposition that I was melancholy because I was alone put me out of humour. I'm used to travelling alone. I live, like every real man, in my work. On the contrary, that's the way I like it and I think myself lucky to live alone, in my view this is the only possible condition for men, I enjoy waking up and not having to say a word. Where is the woman who can understand that? — Max Frisch

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date. — Mary McCormack