Abrogating Synonym Quotes

#1. The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

Saib Tabrizi

#2. Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.

Karl-Erik Sveiby

#3. Don't let something like the simple word "No" stop you from doing anything!

Wendy Noriega-Quintana

#4. You'll be alright," I say, "Mum likes you.

J.A. Buckle

#5. I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.

Tone Bell

#6. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

#7. It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. It seems that the people who question me the most are the ones who've committed the most outlandish or atrocious acts.

Tom Piccirilli

#9. If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Alicia Keys

#10. Want of pluck shows want of blood.

Virgil

#11. Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.

Greg Laurie

#12. I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

Nancy Friday

#13. To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

#14. It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

Ziggy Marley