Worded Synonym Quotes & Sayings

How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life. — Paul Broks

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. — Claude Bernard

These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off. — Stephen Richards

Yes, Einstein was a badass. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy. — Janeane Garofalo

Tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world? — Sorin Cerin

You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. — Emma Lazarus

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job. — Allison Anders

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks. — Jon Fishman

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. — Gloria Steinem

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves. — Walid Jumblatt

What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live? — Mary Oliver

Tis the eternal law,
That first in beauty should be first in might. — William Butler Yeats

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school. Instead, I was force-fed a few of Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, although the English needed translation, the broad comedy and wrenching drama were lost, and none of the magnificently dirty jokes were ever explained. (Incidentally, Romeo and Juliet, fully appreciated, might be banned in some U.S. states.) This was the Concordance again, and little more. So we'd read all the lines aloud, resign ourselves to a ponderous struggle, and soon give up the plot completely. — Bob Harris