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

Steve Allen

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

Douglas Adams

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

We're not about to let them take the phrase.

Janet Parker

If there can be any good that comes out of Katrina, maybe we can get rid of the phrase 'minimal hurricane,' .

Ben Nelson

You are pretty much stuck. I'm not even acquainted with what anyone is calling this decade. There is no catchy phrase.

David Gonzalez

Help Roberto out, make a non-insulting phrase using 'you and you' and 'shit'. If he'd been one of my players, I would have had a go at him.

Carles Puyol

I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Mikhail Bakunin

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Harlan Howard

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Carrie P. Snow

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you know the German phrase, 'You can steal horses with him'? It means a person you can both make love with all night, passionately, then wake up the next morning and be completely silly.

Jonathan Carroll

That's the kind of phrase a juror will take back into the jury room and pull out during deliberations. It could be construed to show a guilty mindset.

David Irwin

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.

Chris Morris

I am a pair of fresh eyes with a new way of looking at the organization with new ways to improve, ... I do not believe in the phrase, 'That's the way it's always been.' That should be outlawed. Health care is changing and we have to change to keep pace and now's a good time.

Barbara Allen

Very nice job, but make your voice go up at the end of the phrase; it sounds more appealing and enthusiastic.

Yvonne Taylor

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

John Colville

I'm offended by the phrase 'paid his debt to society.' It sounds as if a life were for sale. I don't think it's a debt that's payable.

Sue Young

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

Linda Lingle

I'm seeing the name Trey. Is anyone in the audience know a Trey? I'm seeing a phrase of a place that you want to go to.

Craig Karges

The phrase is 'Whatever can happen, does happen,' and it certainly fits for firearms. And I don't know how many instances you see some one says, 'I didn't know we had it,' or 'didn't think they could get,'.

Jim Hughes

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

Isaac Asimov

Well, I like to use the phrase. An agent must be skilled at moving from emotional to logical responses—you won't negotiate well if you're doing so from an emotional center. If you can move to logic, you're not concerned about the money.

Judy Johnson

"Muscular bonding" is the most economical label I could find for this phenomenon, and I hope the phrase will be understood to mean the euphoric fellow feeling that prolonged and rhythmic muscular movement arouses among nearly all participants in such exercises.

William H. Mcneill

I praised him for writing the memo with the phrase 'may,' because certified teachers ... do not have to clean.

Diane Wildfong

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

Marianne Faithfull

I say 'travel teams' because I firmly believe that a majority of these outlaw teams are not affiliated with the AAU. People use it as a catch phrase. There are a lot of outlaw programs out there, and there has to be a focus on them because they facilitate some of the bad behavior when it comes to recruiting.

Len Elmore

The key phrase for everybody in this industry at this moment is actually grow the industry as opposed to try and come up with the next million-seller hit for consoles, because that's been done and it's not expanding the market pie.

Hiroshi Kamide

It is ironic, ... that a media company that should be seeking to protect the First Amendment is seeking to undermine it by claiming a monopoly on the phrase 'fair and balanced.' .

Denny Chin

What we're trying to do here, to borrow an insurance phrase, is 'Don't turn a drama into a crisis'.

Ross Finnie

John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

Gaylord Nelson

I don't like the phrase 'sophomore jinx. But it was there in my head: This album had to be much better than the first one.

Heather Headley

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

Don Hewitt

There must be fish. You have to put out the fish but you either don't eat it or you have to leave some, because it sounds similar in phonetics to a phrase which means you have savings.

Ding Lan

If we get up into that league, we'll have issues larger than naming these storms. The new phrase will be hurricane fatigue. Let's coin that right now.

Frank Lepore

There's a phrase: to strike while the iron is hot. The iron is hot.

Joanne K. Wuensch

What's not really clear who is who pays the license. I've talked to a few card companies, and a lot of those just gave me a pat phrase about how it wouldn't change anything that they're doing.

Jim Handy

He does a lot. You can tell he's a coach's son. He's been around the game. He has a really good understanding as an athlete. You see that on the football field and on the basketball court. You always hear that phrase, 'He's a coach on the floor.' He really is.

Lance Scheib

The phrase of the survivor.

Jaguar Wright

Freedom is not free' is a phrase we hear every day, but few of us understand what it means. Justin and the Lima Company understood. They gave up their lives for it.

Robert Hoffman

Maybe we can get rid of the phrase minimal hurricane. There is no such thing as a minimal hurricane.

Ben Nelson

The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.

John Gross

He's a very smart person, and in a phrase I'd say he gets it. He's looking very much forward to being aboard the space station.

Sally Davis

It seemed so obvious that abusing the power of the page, and that was a phrase that was bandied about, 'the power of the page', that any abuse would be career suicide.

Bob Merrill

The phrase is supposed to be satirical, but lots of people don't see the subtext.

Bill Griffith

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story . . . .

Jeanne Moreau

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

Harvey Ball

Cautiously optimistic would be a good phrase, ... I hope that we can sustain the momentum.

Paul Wolfowitz

For many African-Americans, the phrase 'race-based medicine' is a signal to run for the hills.

Sandra Gadson

My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."

James Caan

We read (the phrase) in the forward, where it talked about speakeasies. We didn't want a bar and grill at the end of the name, and we kept coming to that (phrase).

Sandy Mccullough

They get along, that's a good way to phrase it, they get along well enough. I just think for the most part we're a quiet, hard-working group.

Rich Trzcinski

If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

John Bright

The fountain of youth, if you want to coin that phrase, because it sort of gives the entire area a chance for rebirth.

Joel Holley

He [Gingrich] used that against [then-House Speaker] Jim Wright and the Democrats. That phrase is now coming back to haunt them. It is not whether anyone did anything wrong; it is the perception that develops, and there is nothing that they can do about it.

Tony Coelho

Someone actually has to think of that phrase and say it. We look at something like 'wardrobe malfunction' and we can see how it grows and changes over time.

Paul Jj Payack

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

Nathaniel Smith

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Joseph Story

Diversity is a phrase that's tossed around, but we actually approach this as a business subject and measure how effective diversity management is in Corporate America.

Luke Visconti