Circumlocution Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in…

— Immanuel Kant

I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble.

— Genevieve Padalecki

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

— Michael Ledeen

A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region.

— Ehud Barak

“Hitler invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. Much to the bafflement of the Allies, however, Pope Pius XII said nothing. He refused to condemn…

— Cyrus Shahrad

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the…

— Pat Buchanan

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

— Neve Campbell

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

— Tom Segev

[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left…

— Abul A'la Maududi

In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is…

— Elliott Colla