Unsourced Synonym Quotes & Sayings

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead. As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such behavior makes us good people. It doesn't. It makes us frustrated people. — Julia Cameron

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore. — R. K. Milholland

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. — Malcolm Gladwell

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. — Richard Lamm

her face lay still on the air under his face... — Ayn Rand

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words. — Thomas Kinkade

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie. — Malcolm X

Good boy" can be canceled out the next day by "bad boy." "You're a smart girl" by "What a stupid thing to do!" "Careful" by "Careless" . . . and so on.

But you can't take away the time he shoveled the whole walkway even though his arms were tired and his toes were frozen. Or the time he made the baby laugh with his goofy faces when the babysitter couldn't get her to stop crying, or found his mom's reading glasses, or figured out how to make the alarm on the cell phone stop going off when no one else could do it. These are the things he can draw upon to give himself confidence in the face of adversity and discouragement. In the past he did something he was proud of, and he has, within himself, the power to do it again. — Julie King

Fear screams; faith whispers! — Evinda Lepins

If you always wait until you are ready to do something, you will never do anything. — Anton Swanepoel

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets. — Hector Hugh Munro

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken. — Mary Balogh

(The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.") — Elizabeth Kolbert

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class. — Jena Malone