Quotes of Emphasis - somelinesforyou

“ When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was alive. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ”

- Albert Ellis

“ A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

“ Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ”

- Jane Wagner

“ Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household. ”

- Bible

“ The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. ”

- Gary Player

“ Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals. ”

- Joe Slovo

“ Don't Stress the Small Stuff — and it's all small stuff. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. ”

- Greg Anderson

“ My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. ”

- Peter Gay

“ Our commitment to human rights, primarily of the individual, but also of our diverse ethnic and religious heritage for which we suffered, must be absolute. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. ”

- Will Eisner

“ In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ”

- George Orwell

“ Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break; and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”

- David Brinkley

“ Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. ”

- Tony Blair

“ I know that unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character. ”

- Betty White

“ I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ”

- Huston Smith

“ Often we place too much emphasis on the desired results, and not enough on the person we need to be to achieve and support those results. ”

- Larry Hehn

“ The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. ”

- Ruth Bader Ginsberg

“ The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”

- David Brinkley
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