Emphasis Quotes · Page 5

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

— John Clayton

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

— Billy Graham

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.

— Gloria Gaynor

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to…

— Will Oldham

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

— John Mott

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

— Anonymous

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the…

— Alan Dundes

I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the…

— David Leadbetter

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer… And why do…

— Elie Wiesel

Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis…

— Jack Ohman

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for…

— Charlaine Harris

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life…

— John Updike

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to…

— Tom Stoppard

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything…

— Philip Pullman

Because we have such a deeply grooved conditioning to reject and condemn ourselves, particularly in this culture, I find that emphasis on…

— Tara Brach

I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved…

— Gail Carriger

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.…

— Flannery O'Connor

Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is…

— James Madison

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any…

— Rachel McAdams

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to…

— Alexis Korner

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our…

— Alice Waters

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only…

— Bear Bryant

There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that.…

— Adam Driver

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith…

— Ovadia Yosef

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as…

— Huston Smith

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as…

— Christopher Hitchens

Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

— Jennifer Weiner

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis…

— Pat Ament

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

— Cornel West

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its…

— Calvin Coolidge

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

— Tracy Kidder

In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself

— Doreen Virtue