Phrases Quotes

Phrases Quote of the day

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

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 a bad government.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

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 the Tao can you be truly yourself.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby!

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.

The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

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 soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.