Unguessable Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong - but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations. — Erik Naggum

It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss; an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. — George Eliot

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The part of me that actually cares about being a decent person promptly punched my inner researcher in the jaw and stuffed her in a closet at the back of my head, to be retrieved later. — Seanan McGuire

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous. — Squeak Carnwath

These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die. — William Shakespeare

You make James Bond look like he shops at a thrift store and cuts his own hair. — Melissa McClone

Becoming a child is living toward a second innocence: not the innocence of the newborn infant, but the innocence that is reached through conscious choices. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers - even the answers they themselves believed. I don't know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being "politically conscious" - as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

A battle avoided cannot be lost. — Sun Tzu

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth ... — Robert Frost

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species. — Pitigrilli

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. — Carlos Castaneda