#paraphrase

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#paraphrased #humor

Familiarity breeds complacency. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#paraphrased #poetry #dreams

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #achievement

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#paraphrased #charity

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

Atlas smirked. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#paraphrased #unintentional-humor #humor

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? ↗

— Brad Warner

#paraphrased #death

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size ↗

— Melissa Nathan

#melissa-nathan #paraphrased #pride-and-prejudice #humor