Clever Metaphors Quotes

#1. Most people are more willing to enter an airplane than jump on a trampoline. And, they're more terrified from bungee jumping, than spending hours at hundreds of meters above the ground.

Daniel Marques

#2. Generative metaphors and proverbs both derive their power from a clever substitution: They substitute something easy to think about for something difficult.

Chip Heath

#3. Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!

Elisabeth Leamy

#4. That is the bitterest of all,
to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

George Eliot

#5. We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

Oswald Chambers

#6. We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

Alain Badiou

#7. If you're not honest with your work - if you're being merely decorative - then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

Michele Zackheim

#8. The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

Penn Jillette