Supplemented Examples Quotes & Sayings

I'm nice because I'm genuinely fond of you. — Christina Lauren

When I was a child I burnt the back of my right hand on a hot iron.

I can't recall the pain, but there's an eye-shaped scar as testament to it. As a teenager I used to think it was the all seeing eye of the anti-Christ and that I was the devil incarnate. Or at least a minion.

It was my right hand, innit?

What I do remember though is my father, or Dad as we called him, abandoning the polite Abbu, telling me not to cry and to be patient because the fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fire of the iron. — Ruth Ahmed

You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. — John Steinbeck

Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct. — Haruki Murakami

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight? — Drew Brees

It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us. — Elizabeth Alexander

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting. — Rob Lowe

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself. — Paullina Simons

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. — Abraham Maslow

Only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind clearly process all of the day's experiences/memories - without distraction. And, perhaps, only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind truly understand the meaning of these memories, as well, and assimilate them with all the other memories you've accumulated over time, forming greater meanings - unintelligible in the light of day - building, perhaps, to some ultimate meaning at the culmination of life - unintelligible in the light of living. — Mark X.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market. — Liza Mundy

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. — Omar Bongo