Sycophantic Define Quotes & Sayings

I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future. — Alison Singh Gee

When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much. — Nick Frost

God wants us to be stronger than we are
more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing more willingness to shoulder some of the burden of His heavy load. In short, He wants us to be more like He is and, if you haven't noticed, some of us are not like that yet. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too. — Rick Ross

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself — Louis De Bernieres

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong

He doesn't know either." She stopped and faced me. "Have you ever thought that maybe you're helping him figure that out? — Heather Demetrios

All my heroines, yes, even the Little Mermaid, even poor, dull, listless Sleeping Beauty, have given me this sense of possibility. They made me feel I wasn't forced to live out the story my family wanted for me, that I wasn't doomed to plod forward to a fate predetermined by God, that I didn't need to be defined by my seizures, or trapped in fictions of my own making, or shaped by other people's stories. That I wanted to write my own life. — Samantha Ellis

He was in love with aspects of her. Andre wasn't capable of expressing himself like other people. He dreamt in smells, he heard music in colours. — Kathleen Tessaro

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man. — Leon Trotsky

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician. — Youssou N'Dour

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained. — Eckhart Tolle

In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around a cardboard track: The toy car was yours, and you invested it with importance and enhanced it with fantasy and pitied it because it was small, like you were. Such games were weapons against the ennui of endless Saturdays. — Roger Ebert

That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists. — Henry Rosovsky

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone. — Alphonsus Liguori