Wording Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments.…
— Peter Friedman
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Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
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On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a…
— Rand Paul
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Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by…
— Dave Barry
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I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
— Linda Chavez
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At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney…
— Tim Ferriss
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At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not…
— Daniel B. Wallace
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I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with…
— Larry Norman
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and…
— John Keats
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It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke…
— Steven Wright
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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man…
— Frank Herbert
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...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is…
— Gina Barreca
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Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk…
— Craig Brown
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
— John Keats
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Construction waste is a major source of pollution in the city, the backward handling way of it for a long time has led to the…
— Oliva
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O people, you should know that he who is upset because of a false wording that is said about him is not intelligent, and whoever…
— Zahid Abas
Who Wrote These Wording Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Wording Quotes as follows: