a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If you aren’t a living example of ‘the devil quoting scripture.’ ” — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“It was never a good thing when a bad guy started quoting Nietzsche.” — Robert Kroese Copy Share Image
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.” — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
“I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don’t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead. — Irving Brecher Copy Share Image
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I’ll try. That which does not kill us makes us stronger, right?” “You’re quoting Kelly Clarkson?” “No, Nietzsche,” Harper replied with a… — Scarlett Cole Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has… — Franklin J. Meine Copy Share Image
“If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie Copy Share Image
“I turned my head to look at the Ascian. It was clear that he had been listening attentively, but I could not… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
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