Quotes About Phrase

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

Your repetition can be intentional. You can use the same anchor phrase freshly each time, renewed by focusing on your underlying intention— the deeper Yes that lies within you. You can also humanize the repetition with a smile or acknowledgment.

She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.

A phrase runs through his head – was it Thomas More's? – 'the peace of the hen coop when the fox has run home'. He sees the scattered carcasses

under the terrible axiom that "men should have strength of character," — a masculine phrase that has caused many a woman's misery.

What are you babbling on about, woman?" sighed Chloe. She'd picked this phrase up from her father and imitated his weary tone perfectly. They'd made the mistake of laughing the first time she did it, so she'd kept it up, and said it just often enough, and with perfect timing, so that they couldn't help but keep laughing.

Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.

We've all heard the phrase 'equal pay for equal work.' Many of those who habitually repeat this mantra may not realize that it is simply a variation of the discredited labor theory of value (LTV), which is generally associated with Marxian economics.

Prewar." It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people's minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike America for the past eighty years, Italy had not regularly dotted the globe with tanks and infantry and drones. Thom

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say standing on line, the rest of the English-speaking world says standing in line.

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree." I hated that phrase. It was code for, "I know you're too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I'm going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

France is the only country where some small phrase could bring about a great revolution.

One of the other patients at the respiratory clinic had used a phrase – 'managed decline' – and it had stuck with Rebus. To him, it seemed to sum up his whole life since retirement, and maybe even before.

Douglas, you wouldn't by any chance know the Korean phrase for 'You have three minutes to surrender,' would you?" "Sampun inae? hangpokhae.

I looked at the sky with its patchwork of sun and storm clouds—the devil must be beating his wife indeed. I bet I was the only one who used that phrase anymore. I

I hate the phrase 'No pun intended.' It's pointless.

it can do no harm if others reflect whether we are in this world to tear down instead of build up. The expression "We don't need that any more" - how readily it is used, and what a stupid and ugly phrase it is.

And the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of politics is on all of those red and white hats that I see out there: 'Make America Great Again'.

Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this simple phrase.

That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

For in one stroke, I am become a gentleman of leisure, non?

I know you've heard the phrase "It takes two to make a relationship better." It's just not my experience as a psychiatrist. When I teach my patients how powerful they are, they realize they can clearly make things better with their loved ones or they can make things worse.