Direness Synonyms Quotes

#1. Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

Roald Dahl

#2. Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

Patti Smith

#3. My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world full of sorrows, this was only one more.

Elizabeth Berg

#4. What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.

Dorothy Gilman

#5. So that's how it is. Today's the big day." Beckett nodded with a wry smile.
He knows.
He was naked now. "How you want me, baby? Execution style? Or you want to look me in the eyes?

Debra Anastasia

#6. Be the determining factor of your success - define it and own it

Joe Evener

#7. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Desmond Tutu

#8. You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one's soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire.

Moriah Densley

#9. Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

Ed Miliband

#10. Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and throughly worth living.

Terry Pratchett

#11. What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

James Sanborn

#12. By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. "Bravo, lionlady," he said when he left. "We have killed the tiger.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#13. In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Linda Ellerbee

#14. Please don't ask me to let you go. I can't do it. I'm not strong enough to do it again.

Nashoda Rose

#15. I was born alive. Isn't that punishment enough?

Clive Barker