Phrase Quotes
624 quotes by 519 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
— George Will
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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
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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
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Who Wrote These Phrase Quotes
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