The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law"… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather,… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do?… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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