#diction

Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father Ramon coughed. 'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#convent #dystopian #orphanage #toast #men

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#withdrawal #money

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. ↗

— Dave Barry

#big #big enough #dictionary #enough #everything

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#eyes #i #me #need #quotations

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fools #found #impossible #only #word

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#big #big shoes #cane #coat #contradiction

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#authority #contradiction #exercise #over #same

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#disappears #like #most #other #prediction

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #begins #continue #contradictions #find

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

#door #except #impossible #know #lie