Top 1200 Phrase Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
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.
One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.
Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
It's all well and good to turn in a beautiful poetic phrase that ends up on a pillow but I want there to be a visceral response to what I write.
The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Sadhvi Pragya is an answer to those who have maligned the image of Hindus by using the phrase 'Hindu terrorism.'
The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.
I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.
People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?'
We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.
The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
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.
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.
Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
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.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.
The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.
I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."
