#phrase

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#hell #paraphrased #perception #perception

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #paraphrased #valor #harry-dresden

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. ↗

— Steve Allen

#god #him #holy #must #phrase

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#discoveries #eureka #exciting #funny #hear

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#best #citizen #dangerous #days #fathers

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now. ↗

— Rita Dove

#american dream #different #different people #dream #i

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#desperate #effort #i #increasingly #members

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#bat #before #crack #hears #long

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. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#added #complex #complex system #confucianism #court

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#become #been #better #civilised #dirty