Understatement In Literature Quotes & Sayings

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg
'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it? — Richard Yates

I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is. — Clarice Lispector

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others. — Gillian Anderson

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it. — Ariana Grande

For those who think Africa's problems can simply be solved by the injection of money, I would recommend a crash course in cobalt economics in the Congo. In 2004 the cobalt boom meant there was plenty of money in Lubumbashi, but the presence of money did not guarantee that the local economy grew or even stabilised. — Tim Butcher

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse. — Mikhail Gorbachev

God wants to make us understand and draw our attention to how important it is to learn to value one another — Sunday Adelaja

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. — Jose Mourinho

the galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. — Victor Hugo

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. — Daniel Defoe

I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated and motivated and committed and active forever. There are pulses where they switch on to a particular issue, and just inevitably they switch off. — John Elkington

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it. — Russell Brand

We have a philosophy of we'll keep putting it up until people get it. We did that actually these last three weeks with Cracked Out from New York. People didn't really understand them. We put them up three weeks ago and they just got stared at. — Scott Aukerman