Euphemistically Quotes

#1. Mark Lappe once put it . . . The period once euphemistically called the Age of Miracle Drugs is dead.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

#2. It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Peter Bart

#3. Rhoda, my mother, was what the neighbors euphemistically termed "a difficult woman." Her misery was like Texas oil: You could drill anywhere and find some.

Karla Jay

#4. Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.

Kathleen Norris

#5. Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.

James Hillman

#6. It will not have escaped you that this town simulates normality that is completely illusory: every day something happens that one might euphemistically call irritating.

Alessandro Baricco

#7. Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

Christopher Lasch

#8. Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

#11. How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy...
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It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things.

Victoria Clayton

#12. I wasn't trying to get into any trouble behind these crazy ass niggas, but at the same time, I wasn't about to act as if I was a punk, either. I

Tynessa

#13. Ts! Ts!" said Kaa, shaking his head to and fro. "I also have known what love is. There are tales I could tell that - "

"That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly," said Bagheera, quickly.

Rudyard Kipling

#14. To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

David Bowie

#16. Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.

Tamela Rich

#17. I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

Margaret Mitchell

#18. It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" -- Pretty Wittgenstein like.

Milan Kundera

#19. The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

Chris Gardner

#20. For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

#21. Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.

Shannon Hale

#22. I encourage women to ask other women for help when they need it, and it's likewise safer to accept an offer from a woman than from a man. (Unfortunately, women rarely make such offers to other women, and I wish more would.) I

Gavin De Becker

#23. She like imaginary men best of all.

Anne Taintor

#24. You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

John C. Maxwell

#25. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness; ... and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Robert Browning