Top 76 Sage Like Sayings
#1. Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters.
Mark Frost
#2. Soon fifty-six Shield Bugs were lined up, crouching like coiled springs on the gunnels of the chicken boat.
Angie Sage
#3. The king killed his brother, who was actually king, so that he could be king. Then the dead king's wife and baby disappeared, on account the baby would've been king, so the brother probably killed them, too. They do that kind of thing all the time, kings do. They can kill anybody they don't like.
Sage Blackwood
#5. One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.
Marc Andreessen
#6. Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars
new cars
that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.
Richelle Mead
#7. Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court.
Luke Taylor
#8. Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle. "Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets.
Angie Sage
#9. I don't know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit." "I - I figured it'd be a shame to ruin your pretty face," I stammered.
Richelle Mead
#10. Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.
Richelle Mead
#11. She reaches out to take the jacket. I hesitate for a moment, like Frodo with his Ring, but then I remember ow much crap Frodo walked into and I'd rather not end up like Frodo. So I give it to Sage.
Ashley Poston
#12. How often when they find a sage
As sweet as Socrates or Plato
They hand him hemlock for his wage
Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View
Don Marquis
#13. Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
Ramana Maharshi
#14. I was banished," said Reven proudly.
"What for?" Elfwyn pressed.
"The king said I was anathema."
"He doesn't like athemas?"
"Anathema means, like, accursed," said Jinx. "Probably it was for robbing people.
Sage Blackwood
#15. The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao-Tzu
#16. The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
Thomas Hardy
#17. Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."
He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.
Richelle Mead
#18. Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage.
Tom Douglas
#19. I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.
Halston Sage
#20. Adrian was completely deadpan. 'So. You're saying my sister is dressed like a prostitute.
Richelle Mead
#21. I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.
Angie Sage
#22. I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.
Richelle Mead
#23. The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole ... He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
Zhuangzi
#25. Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
Roald Dahl
#26. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
Frank Waters
#27. But then it was over too quickly and they pulled away. She knew they couldn't stand there and kiss like a couple on the run in a thriller.
Joss Ware
#28. I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
Halston Sage
#29. Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted.
Mark Nepo
#30. There is wisdom out there that can't be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won't condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
Lance Conrad
#31. I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.
Halston Sage
#32. Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun.
Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.
Richelle Mead
#33. You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel, Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.
Angie Sage
#34. Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
Sage Stallone
#35. And we clung to each other in a shelter smelling of orange peel and piss on the promenade, and shrieked with glee, like the Bacchae who dismembered Orpheus.
Lorna Sage
#36. Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear.
Richelle Mead
#37. The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.
Ogwo David Emenike
#38. Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.
Sage Steadman
#39. I found the candles - atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.
Richelle Mead
#40. You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your ... um, Athenian women.
Richelle Mead
#41. Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.
Halston Sage
#42. Really, Sage? A date?"
I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date."
"A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added.
"I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a
movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring."
"A real date.
Richelle Mead
#43. A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#45. You're presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I've changed my mind."
"You see, that's just it." There he was again, moving into my space. "I think you like the 'other things.
Richelle Mead
#46. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Henry David Thoreau
#47. Okay," she drew out. "Let me rephrase that. Did you sleep with Sage yet?"
I blushed furiously.
She smacked my leg and exclaimed, "I knew it! I could smell it on you."
"You can smell it on me?"
She grinned. "When I was hugging you, yeah. Your chest smelled like cologne and man tongue.
Karina Halle
#48. He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
James Beattie
#49. You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.
Angie Sage
#51. Listen like a student.
Learn like a scholar.
Live like a sage.
Love like a saint.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, 'Well, that's Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#53. At first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it come to see the gifts it always brought but this rain changed from blue to black and left nothing.
Ally Condie
#54. Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#55. He always got this glint in his eyes when he complimented my looks, like he was seeing so much more than just my actual appearance.
Richelle Mead
#56. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#57. It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#58. The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
Halston Sage
#59. People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
Laozi
#60. Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
P.S. Martinez
#61. Those green irises were like gentle pools of brilliant meadows of sage and green-envy coneflowers swaying in a warm breeze.
HOLY fuck. What the hell sort of poetry was that dribbling out of my twisted brain?
Christine Zolendz
#62. And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#63. It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
Tom Rath
#64. What's this? It looks like a lily."
"It is," he said. "No offense, but this lily is
kind of more badass than yours. If the Alchemists
want to buy the rights to this and
start using it, I'm willing to negotiate.
Richelle Mead
#66. He swallows, his Adam's apple bobbing on his thick neck and I briefly imagine what it's like to bite him there, just a small nibble or two. I bet he tastes like sage and testosterone.
Karina Halle
#67. We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That's what she did. It was bad judgment, that's all. You don't cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.
Richelle Mead
#68. You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."
"Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.
No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from.
Richelle Mead
#69. The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.
Lorna Sage
#70. I took a deep breath and said: "I fell in love with a vampire."
And like that, I was blinded by light.
Richelle Mead
#71. To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.
Sage Kafsky
#72. He shook his head. "No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do."
I waited for more. "That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?"
Those green eyes held me. "I don't think I need to.
Richelle Mead
#73. I wanted to cry. I wanted to hide. I wanted to drink. I wanted to... wrap my arms around him and never let go. My pulse felt erratic, and my thoughts jumbled around in my brain. I felt like a hyperactive, bipolar schizophrenic on crack.
Sibylla Matilde
#74. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.
Anonymous
#75. I'll accompany you too, fair lady," said Reven. "I would fain meet your grandmother."
"You would what?" said Elfwyn.
"He means he'd like to," said Jinx. Some of the books in Simon's house used old-fashioned words like that.
Sage Blackwood
#76. He seemed to be having trouble remembering the steps, for he was pumping my arm and counting under his breath (one, two, three), and his breath smelled like the open maws of the pub cellars that grapes on Whitchurch pavements on delivery day. Beer.
Lorna Sage
