Why Are There Parentheses Around Words In Quotes & Sayings

One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them. — John C. Maxwell

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want. — Suzanne Collins

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do? — Greg Lake

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear. — Jodi Picoult

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else. — Bradley Denton

Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within. — Eleesha

Come here, he said. Rebeca obeyed. She stopped beside the hammock in an icy sweat, feeling knots forming in her intestines, while Jose Arcadio stroked her ankle with the tips of his fingers, then her calves, then her thighs, murmuring: Oh, little sister, little sister. She had to make a supernatural effort not to die when a startlingly regulated cyclonic power lifted her up by the waist and despoiled her of her intimacy with 3 slashes of its claws and quartered her like a little bird. She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconcievable pleasure of that unbearable pain ... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi

From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that. — John Hodgman

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together. — Aga Khan IV

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian. — James Sharp

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net. — Jackie Mason

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk ... — Goldie Hawn

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark ... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak. — Jodi Picoult

When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell