Phrases Quotes
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.
I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.
Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.
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 nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.
'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.
Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.
One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.
Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.
Don't feel bad, Angela," Kami said. "You know guys, they only want one thing. Repartee. I can't count how many times men have admired my well-turned phrases.
Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.