Understatements In Songs Quotes & Sayings

An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. — Gillian Flynn

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. — Charles Tupper

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny — Sunday Adelaja

Madame Magloire sometimes called him 'Your Highness.' One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It was on one of the upper shelves, and as the bishop was rather short, he could not reach it. 'Madame Magloire,' said he, 'bring me a chair. My highness cannot reach that shelf. — Victor Hugo

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. — Mary Oliver

Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing? — Graham Swift

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
Less pleasing when possest;
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast. — Thomas Gray

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects. — Peter Jackson

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. — Norman Thomas

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at. — Geraldine Brooks

Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so ... — Elizabeth Montagu