Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism".… — Ron Paul
Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a… — Brad Alan Lewis
When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by… — Laozi
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and… — Woodrow Wilson
I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a… — Aldous Huxley
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to… — Kenny Smith
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden… — Eleanor Perenyi
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to… — Charles Churchill
He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin… — Dave Barry
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.' — Yao Ming
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to… — Lorde
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth… — Theodore Roosevelt
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it… — Harriet Doerr
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most… — Edward Hirsch
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in… — Maeve Binchy
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged. — Witold Gombrowicz
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word — Rakim
Brothers and sisters, with the blessings of modern technology, we can express gratitude and joy about God’s great plan for His children in a way… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug — Sara Bareilles
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line… — Walter Brueggemann

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