Paraphrase Quotes

50 Paraphrase quotes by 48 unique authors

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase. — Richard Howard
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in… — Eckhart Tolle
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase) — Giordano Bruno
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they… — Mark Galli
Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase… — Robert David Steele
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, — George Herbert
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical,… — Kurt Vonnegut
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we… — Macklemore
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted… — Wolf Kahn
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change… — Tony Robbins
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's… — Ronald Reagan
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein,… — Bill Bryson
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer
The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no… — Kurt Vonnegut
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system.… — Howard Zinn
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. — Jon Krakauer
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher — Ayn Rand
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. — Douglas Hofstadter
Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make… — Mercedes Lackey
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped… — Mark Twain
I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. — Luis Federico Leloir

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