Couched Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
— M. King Hubbert
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It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at…
— David Cross
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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
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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
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Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
— Dan Miller
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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.
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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
— Maya Angelou
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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
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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
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
— Jonathan Swift
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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
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A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Couched Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Couched Quotes as follows: