Phrase Quotes

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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so… — H. L. Mencken
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to… — Stephen Covey
If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day… — Tony Robbins
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… — Raymond Chandler
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it… — Mark Twain
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather… — Mark Twain
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit… — Truman G. Madsen
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that… — Eric Maisel
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is… — Edward Dahlberg
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. — George Will
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away… — Vladimir Lenin
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. — Mignon McLaughlin
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the… — Marlo Morgan
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my… — Claude Bernard
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is… — Daniel J. Boorstin

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