Standoffish Synonym Quotes

#1. The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

Thornton Wilder

#2. Unity has many possible bases, but the strongest unity is based on love.

Francis George

#3. Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Mason Cooley

#4. Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

A.R. Rahman

#5. Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Rick Pitino

#7. Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this job.

Aasif Mandvi

#8. When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

Barbara Amiel

#10. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

Zhuangzi

#12. Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

James A. Baldwin

#13. They were speaking the language of Heaven

Jamie McGuire

#14. In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

John Muir