#paraphrase

Familiarity breeds complacency. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

There is no God and we are his prophets. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#paraphrased #religion #religion

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#paraphrased #poetry #dreams

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#paraphrased #light

Evil will win if good people do nothing. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#real-talk #good-and-evil

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#did #dissolution #economy #i #intention

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us". ↗

— Malcolm X

#cole-porter #paraphrased #song-lyrics #song-lyrics