Phrases Quotes

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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. — Jack Kent Cooke
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness. — Herbie Hancock
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
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by… — C.S. Lewis
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. — Alan Price
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are… — Edwin Newman
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
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated… — John Barth
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action.… — Mao Zedong
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root… — Mao Zedong
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
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a… — Northrop Frye

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