Understatements Examples Quotes & Sayings

True vampires that want to build a strong family does not go around turning people just because they want to. But even the most sensible of vampire can be tempted by beauty. When you come across someone whose beauty seems to be made of the stars themselves, then you want to preserve that beauty forever. Despite knowing that it may not be the best idea in the world. But then beauty is a power all of its own. — Beverley Price

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door ... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? — Ray Bradbury

And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty. — Carew Papritz

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. — Robert Breault

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. — Julian Lincoln Simon

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why. — Mike DeWine

The life God bestows is imparted not once for all, but each moment continuously, by the unceasing operation of His mighty power. Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, — Andrew Murray

She smelled of Marlboros, Aviance Night Musk, and her first drink of the late afternoon. — Louise Erdrich

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — Jacob Bronowski

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people. — Chris Lilley

We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical. — Carl Sagan

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery. — Ayn Rand

We will have learned to understand and express all of physics in the language of information. — James Gleick

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton