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Quotes About Pronouncement

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Transparency International Malaysia( TI-M) pronounces 1MDB probes 'dead' Akhbar Satar
~ Akhbar Satar
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
~ John Milton
This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I stood up straight and announced in my deepest quest-accepting voice: I will use the mead of Kevin! Alex joined Samirah in the bury-your-face-in-your-hands club. Aegir narrowed his eyes. You mean the Mead of Kvasir? Yes. I said. That!
~ Rick Riordan
Do you have anything to declare?' the statue asked me. 'Yes. I do have something to declare.' I said. 'I declare this is [dumb]
~ Rick Riordan
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.
~ Josh Lanyon
declared Mr Marrable magniloquently;
~ Ernest Bramah
when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.
~ Robert M Sapolsky
Did he? Jenny lowered her voice. Shall I tell you what I think of that man? I think he's slightly sinister. Having made this pronouncement, she entered the ivory tower of her deafness and closed the door. Denis could not induce her to say anything more, could not induce her even to listen. She just smiled at him, smiled and occasionally nodded.
~ Aldous Huxley
Baked dough—one of the great smells…He stopped himself; that was the sort of pronouncement that Chloe made, and he must avoid becoming like her, or he would end up making sweeping statements about Russians, just as she did.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?" Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.
~ Jodi Thomas
I can't prove it, but I can say it.
~ Stephen Colbert
Very few things are wise, Lisbeth Debogande. Least frequently those things that are loudly pronounced to be so. The true question is whether they are necessary
~ Joel Shepherd
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
~ Jo Brand
By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.
~ Conan O'Brien
A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship's unromantic behaviour had given Cecilia a distaste for him.
~ Georgette Heyer
many devout Muslims, particularly in the east, understood that attacking helpless people, nonbelievers or not, was contrary to the tenets of Islam. Still, a vast number of Muslims saw the pronouncement of jihad as an endorsement for killing and looting.
~ Eric Bogosian
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.
~ Josh Lanyon
They unthinkingly internalize the mainstream pronouncement and then repeat it as their own opinion, as indeed it has become.
~ Michael Parenti
Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
~ Kelley Armstrong
there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change, plainly involves a pronouncement of vindication.
~ Geerhardus Vos
By the power vested in me thanks to Google, I know pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride!
~ J.R. Ward