Flourished Synonym Quotes

#1. I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Joni Mitchell

#2. The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

John Dewey

#3. You sought the power of my book . . . But that power is mine . . . mine alone . . . carelessly you a lesser entity, toyed with it . . . but it is mine . . . just as the book was mine . . . and now you are mine . . . and I . . . I am hungry.

Mathew Charpentier

#4. A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

John Stuart Mill

#5. O no. You should lift Marian! Such a lump. You are like an undulating billow warmed by the sun. And all this fluff of muslin about you is the froth.

Thomas Hardy

#6. Mashed potato is the gentile's chicken soup. It's nature's tranquilizer. I take it instead of valium.

Andrew Payne

#7. I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. A person can neither think what he wants to nor can I make him think what I want to.

Hermann Hesse

#9. All those other lives. You never did get to lead them.

Mark Haddon

#10. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

Laura Moriarty

#11. I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.

Phil Knight

#12. If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon