Unaccepting Synonym Quotes & Sayings

And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often comes to life for us only when the future has come and gone - and not only the past which we discover after the event but the past which we have long kept stored within ourselves and suddenly learn how to interpret. — Marcel Proust

I thought of myself as an itinerant brain
the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute. — Margaret Atwood

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. — Terry Pratchett

It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again. In there, somewhere, I still feel it. — Markus Zusak

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy. — Yoko Ono

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I never asked you to take care of me! This? This is exactly what I didn't want. You promised me ... " I shook my head, my eyes burning as I turned my attention back to packing. I jerked the zipper of my suitcase so hard I'm surprised I didn't pull the damn tab off. "Let's be honest, hm? You're not trying to take care of me, you're trying to take care of you. You want to have your respectable, white-bread, married, straight family life as well as your faggy brown boy toy on the side, and seriously? Fuck that shit. I trusted you, Brendan! I trusted you to respect me enough not to pull something like this, not to try to keep me dangling along so you could have it both ways without giving up anything. — Amelia C. Gormley

They are both unfathomably complex, the pair of them, and that's why as different as they are, they understand each other. When — Fredrik Backman

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. — Mark Twain

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul. — Bob Ross

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man. — Michael Chabon

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt. — J.K. Rowling

Purposeless life will definitely be gray, monotonous, ordinary and frustrating — Sunday Adelaja

we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah