Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. — Jack Kent Cooke
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. — Michael Pollan
A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't. — Donald Rumsfeld
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be… — Joseph Story
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque… — Thomas Jefferson
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. — Alan Price
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a… — Michel de Certeau
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which… — Matthew Simpson
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to… — William Osler
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging… — Francois Quesnay
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life. — Robert C. Solomon
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is… — Woodrow Wilson
I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe… — Mary Zimmerman
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can… — Harry Stack Sullivan
Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally. — Dietrich Mateschitz
Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite,… — Itzhak Perlman
True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the… — Henry Scougal
Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun… — Jon Stewart
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

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