Undirected Synonyms Quotes

#1. Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

James C. Collins

#2. To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.

Darren Walker

#3. These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.

Azar Nafisi

#4. You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

A. Whitney Brown

#5. After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land.

J.G. Ballard

#6. Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey

#7. MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

Donald Clark

#8. To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.

Derek Ridgers

#9. There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

John Philip Sousa