#phr

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#different #different reasons #french #just #love

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?" ↗

— Glenn Beck

#hell #i #mean #missiles #most

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid Ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep. ↗

— Herculine Barbin

#humanity #intersex #lgbt #queerness #soul

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself ― avoid trying to be someone you're not ↗

— Rick Riordan

#piper-mclean #the-lost-hero #beauty

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#back #because #bit #buy #car

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#called #death #grandly #greeks #happy

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#actually #apt #dancer #dancing #difference

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#between #fine #fine line #line #method

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself