184 Quotes About Phrases

  • Author Maxwell Maltz
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    Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

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  • Author Merrill Markoe
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    The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

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  • Author Phyllis McGinley
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    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.

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  • Author Rollo May
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    Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

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  • Author William Mathews
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    [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

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  • Author Thomas Nashe
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    Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

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  • Author Trevor Noah
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    In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

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  • Author Lynda Obst
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    Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

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