Verisimilitude Examples Quotes & Sayings

I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes.
Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca The Younger

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now. — Taylor Swift

If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all. — Peter Singer

Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart. — Howard Pyle

The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take. — Liam Gillick

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. — James Bovard

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better. — Ted Cruz

No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I don't know what else I have to do to prove to you that I won't let you down again. I won't hurt you. You don't have to be alone anymore. I need you. — Abbi Glines

It's fine, I have it. It's fine. — Joyce Carol Oates

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? — James Earl Jones