Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Contrast Contrasts Differences Different Ego Egocentric Generosity Generous Give Giving Narcissism Narcissistic Opposites Sacrifice Sacrificial Selfish Selfishness Spell Spelling

Washingtonians love the So-and-so is spinning in his grave cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great dead American would be scandalized over some crime against How It Used to Be. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

~ Mark Leibovich

Mark Leibovich Clichés Comparison Contrasts Edward R Murrow Gossip Great Americans Journalism Media Nostalgia Political Gossip Politics Scandalization Scandals Sensibilities Speculation Spinning In Their Grave Washington Dc

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate.

~ Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe Cities City Contrasts New York New York City