Quotes about Phrase

The phrase 'separation of church and state,' which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America must never have a state religion, not that the state be indifferent to religion.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

There is little blood in my arm, Isabella repeated.

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

The NIV reinforces this view by translating the last phrase to read "the kingdom of God is within you." But Jesus is saying, "The kingdom is in your midst," pointing to an internal and external reality.

Paris ain't much of a town.

It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue--the penalty of living in an old civilisation with a notebook.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

Momma wouldn't talk right then, but later in the evening I found that my violation lay in using the phrase by the way. Momma explained that Jesus was the Way, the Truth and the Light, and anyone who says by the way is really saying, by Jesus, or by God and the Lord's name would not be taken in vain in her house.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.