Portly Synonyms Quotes

#1. I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Miranda Kerr

#2. Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

Helen Garner

#3. A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Plutarch

#4. Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse.

Jeff Cooper

#5. It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

Conor McGregor

#6. Tell me about
your Italian journey
I am not ashamed
I wept in that country
beauty touched me
I was a child once more
in the womb of that country
I wept
I am not ashamed
I have tried to return to paradise

Tadeusz Rozewicz

#7. The past is but the beginning of a beginning. - H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future

Laurie R. King

#8. It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Tom Brokaw

#9. another growl at his back. Then she looked again at the typescript

Maggie O'Farrell

#10. Leadership must be established from the top down.

Sam Nunn

#11. Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Casey Stengel

#12. I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Bashar Al-Assad

#14. There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

Matthew Lesko

#15. In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

John Reed