Bywords Quotes

#1. The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?

Kingsley Amis

#2. Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Mary Ritter Beard

#4. I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.

Hannah Simone

#5. Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?

Cassandra Clare

#6. The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Seth Godin

#7. The power of the dark side. The heat of passion and emotion. I can feel it in you, as well. Burning beneath the surface. Burning like your anger. It makes you strong.

Drew Karpyshyn

#8. There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

Omar Sharif

#9. No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

William, Saroyan

#10. A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together.

J.G. Ballard

#11. Since moving to New York, she had been gradually abandoning her old ideas about the nobility of suffering.

Tom Robbins

#12. Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

John Berger

#13. Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.

Faye Kellerman

#14. My capacity for vanishing into whatever shadows happen to be around is a hard-won and precious skill.

John Darnielle