Synonym Quotes - page 2

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence. (Eloisa James)
Sometimes is a synonym which extends itself, and contrasts by just much the domain of its colleague. At other times it is an historical event which comes to modify and renew the vocabulary. View quote
Michel Bréal
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. View quote
Gary Bauer
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time. View quote
Jay Griffiths
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. View quote
Juliette Binoche
That brings us to the second subject where the United Front between Islamism and Communism scored a notable victory-the subject of Secularism. They joined hands to jibe at Secularism till the concept was totally distorted and became a synonym for Islamic imperialism. Secularism as a state policy had been evolved in the modern West which had become sick of the contending theocratic claims of Christian churches. Theocracy had been as alien to Hindu state and society as it had been intrinsic to Christian and Islamic state and society. Secularism was, therefore, nothing new for the Hindus. .... View quote
Sita Ram Goel
If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he's smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case - the euro - I was like a dictator... The euro is a synonym for Europe. View quote
Helmut Kohl
The use of "nurture" as a synonym for "environment" is based on the assumption that what influences children's development, apart from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up. I call this the nurture assumption. Only after rearing two children of my own and coauthoring three editions of a college textbook on child development did I begin to question this assumption. Only recently did I come to the conclusion that it is wrong. View quote
Judith Rich Harris
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual. View quote
Terry Goodkind
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. (David Bowie)
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. View quote
John Barrymore