A Double Negative Quotes

#1. Indeed, cancer's emergence in the world is the product of a double negative: it becomes common only when all other killers themselves have been killed.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody.

Michael Monroe

#3. Well, technically, we'd be re-stealing them," he said dryly. "It's kind of like a double negative.

Ally Carter

#4. I don't know much about grammar, but I think kale salad is what they call a double negative.

Jim Gaffigan

#5. You're the only fire that consumes me. And my wonderful monster smiled at that. Smiled at me.

Saundra Mitchell

#6. Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.

Charles Duhigg

#7. Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Buffalo Bill

#8. So forget the price tag. I mean, forget the size tag and focus on "Does it look right on me?" Would it look better with a little more blouse? A lot of people think, "Oh, my God, it's got to be tight, it's got to be tight." Actually, you look thinner when it's not as tigh

Molly Sims

#9. Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Julian Barnes

#10. The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal.

Beth Johnson

#11. Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.

Ricky Gervais

#12. Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Joe Klein

#13. This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder - the famed double helix.

Sam Kean

#15. At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

Lydia Davis

#16. There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

Kim Gordon

#17. If you're not vomiting during a workout, you're not trying,

Pierce Brown

#18. Self-judgment clouds our mind with inescapable indictments.

Balroop Singh

#19. Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

J.I. Packer

#20. It is true that "atheism" is a negative word, but so is "nonfiction." They are double negatives. Both words tell you that what you are getting is real, not pretend. Those of

Dan Barker

#21. It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

Athenaeus