Quotes with phrases

  • Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

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  • George Eliot But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • John Florio For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Bill Hybels God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Hybels God isn't interested in stock phrases. Talk to him. Talk to the Father sincerely.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Churchill Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • James B. Conant Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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  • Barry Hannah Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Fred A. Allen The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Ronald Reagan The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Claude M. Bristol These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Benjamin Hoff Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Charles Austin Beard You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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