Phrases Quotes - Page 8

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Who ya gonna call?" "Ghostbusters!" "That phrase is ruined forever.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

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.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.