Couched Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful… — Dale Carnegie
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem… — Paul Theroux
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humorâ€”which people like in Americaâ€”all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at… — David Cross
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it. — Jane Roberts
Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination . — Dan Miller
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law… — Learned Hand
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. — Jonathan Swift
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I… — Sachin Tendulkar
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. — Paulo Coelho
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that… — Mary Cantwell
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the… — John Charles Polanyi
When you are down and in trouble, keep fighting. Don't give up. keep kicking. It won't help to wallow in self-pity, or curse your stars… — Prakah Iyer

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