Survived Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

No society can ever be so large as one man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life. — Ben Carson

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No more moving. I'm here. I'm wherever you are. — Stephanie Perkins

I simply
don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed. — Rosemary Sutcliff

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under? — Ashlee Simpson

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied. — Yukio Mishima

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. — Frank Sinatra

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer. — Stark Sands

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world. — P. J. O'Rourke

No, you don't remember, and sometimes it's best that way. Sometimes it's best to start fresh. Every day, fresh. Living always in the present, unburdened by the pain of the past. Most of us drag around our misdeeds like giant dead birds tied to our necks; we condemn ourselves to telling every stranger we meet the story of our anguish and inadequacies, hoping that one day we will be forgiven, hoping that we will find a person who will look at us and pretend to ignore the ridiculous dead birds hanging from our sunburned and weather-beaten necks. And if we find that person, and if we don't hate him for not hating us, if we don't hold him in contempt for not treating us contemptuously, as we expect to be treated - nay, as we demand to be treated - well, that person will be something of a soul mate, I imagine. — Garth Stein