Best Convey Lines
320 Convey quotes by 287 unique authors
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I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep…
— Magda Gerber
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Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look,…
— Bruce Babbitt
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Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
— Marcus Buckingham
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It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps…
— Michael Atiyah
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The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
— Carl Gustav Hempel
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
— Roman Jakobson
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Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind…
— Tao Lin
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Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a…
— Michael Faraday
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than…
— Jonathan Swift
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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a…
— Albert Pike
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The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about…
— Marion Woodman
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
— Vicente Fox
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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
— Horace
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A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
— Marcel Proust
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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how…
— Virginia Woolf
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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
— William Warburton
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Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to…
— Samuel Johnson
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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an…
— Herbert Hoover
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose…
— Herbert Spencer
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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is…
— Rita Dove
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The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer…
— James Gleick
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