Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.... — Philip the Apostle Copy Share Image
The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience, and we respect and venerate him, but we do not believe his… — Charles W. Penrose Copy Share Image
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
