#pronounce

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#hidden #lousy #more #pronouncements #square

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#condemn #embrace #equality #hand #immigration

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#i #made #pronouncements #want

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. ↗

— John Barton

#amused #became #colour #colours #decides

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. ↗

— Iris Chang

#class #class distinctions #country #course #distinctions

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. ↗

— William Cowper

#creep #dismay #feel #judgment #men

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

#external #external world #eye #i #inner

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#another #apostle #called #censured #doctrines

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous