“ These criminals who come from abroad have declared a war of extermination or destruction on Iraq. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
- 3K
“ An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 2.7K
“ An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 426
“ Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
- 343
“ It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. ”
- David H. Souter- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 151
“ Facetiously is the only English word that has all six vowels in order, James Thurber declared. "Oh," replied copy editor Miss Gould, "What about abstemiously?". ”
- David Remmick- Copy
- 3.4K
“ An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
- 2K
“ What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 541
“ No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household… ”
- Richard Weaver- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 514
“ Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…Lenin was certainly right. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Four years ago I had a stroke, I was declared dead and I'm writing a sequel to my book. It's going to be called The Fat Lady Sang. I heard the fat lady sing and I saw the white light. I woke up in the hospital, then a month ago I put my foot into cement at the Mann's Chinese Theatre. ”
- Robert Evans- Copy
- 963
“ Our government, at least according to the NIGHTLINE program that ran, financed STAR GATE over 20 years with 20 million dollars or something like that, at the end of which they more or less declared it to be a failure, and stopped the program. ”
- Art Bell- Copy
- 216
“ Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation? ”
- Barbara Deming- Copy
- 530
“ You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. ”
- Ian McEwan- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 559
“ School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit. ”
- John Haggai- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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