Paraphrase Quotes

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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want… — Bernie Siegel
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line… — David Hilbert
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its… — Mark Van Doren
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism,… — Hugo Chavez
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed… — Walter Koenig
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some… — Ezra Pound
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase… — Mary Steenburgen
More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began… — Neil Peart
I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument… — Kofi Annan
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. — John D. Voelker
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction… — John Ciardi
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as… — Vincent Canby
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of… — Bruce Feirstein
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? — Billy Graham
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper." — Greg Ray
I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: â€˜The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.' — David Dreman
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase… — Lawrence Durrell

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