Top 100 Paraphrased Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Paraphrased

#1. I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: "I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it." NASA: "Dick.

Andy Weir

#2. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))

Helen Keller

#3. Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror." ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned")

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#5. The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. When I listen to you, God
when I do what you ask me to,
I am like a tree
planted by a river,
a tree full of fruit
with leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

Marie-Helene Delval

#8. When scriptures are used as the Lord has caused them to be recorded, they have intrinsic power that is not communicated when paraphrased.

Richard G. Scott

#9. A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Percival Everett

#10. Arjuna, fair or unfair, the results of any action depend on five things: the body, the mind, the instruments, the method and divine grace (luck? fate?). Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for any outcome. - Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 13 to 16 (paraphrased).

Devdutt Pattanaik

#11. all that he has, and he will sing a different tune!" (1:10-11, paraphrased).

Lee A. Schott

#12. Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

John Steinbeck

#14. Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad ...

Ibn Ata Allah

#15. In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.

Maria Montessori

#16. I've always heard that by the time you see the teeth, its too late."

(this quote paraphrased in several Jayne Castle books)

Jayne Castle

#17. At the bottom of the poster was the famous Samuel Johnson quote I've now heard repeated, mangled, and paraphrased many times: When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Craig Taylor

#18. A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. - Paraphrased from The Boxer

Paul Simon

#19. For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased)

Abraham Hicks

#20. We didn't speak our truest thoughts, and paraphrased our souls until we didn't know our feelings, and so were strangers to ourselves.

Adam Novy

#21. The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

Laozi

#22. Voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen

Martin Dugard

#23. In all your getting, get understand. Proverbs paraphrased

Katie Canty

#24. Forgiveness is given to us from God not because we deserve it. Forgiveness is given to us by the grace of God.(Paraphrased message from the Bible.)

Dortha Jackson

#25. Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased

Oliver Goldsmith

#27. When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book "Lothaire")

Kresley Cole

#28. He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

#29. The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

Louis Mountbatten

#30. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

#31. Genius has its limitations.
Insanity ... not so much -Bumper Sticker

Darynda Jones

#32. Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it. quote from Tara Daniels

Jill Shalvis

#33. There is no God and we are his prophets.

Cormac McCarthy

#34. You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#36. Nothing is forever except change.

Gautama Buddha

#37. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

#38. I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' ... The twenty-five percent is for error.

Linus Pauling

#39. Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

Amy Sedaris

#40. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

#41. It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Neil Gaiman

#42. Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Lev Grossman

#43. Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Bill Watterson

#44. What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Marian Keyes

#45. Because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

Jack Kerouac

#46. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis

#47. If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#48. Love yourself before you love someone else.

Leslie Becker-Phelps

#49. Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#50. To paraphrase Montaigne - even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.

M.J. Carter

#51. We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Diogenes Laertius

#52. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Anne Rice

#53. I get mail; therefore I am.

Scott Adams

#54. You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time

Bob Marley

#55. Excess makes the heart grow fonder...

John Balance

#56. God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Mother Teresa

#57. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

L.J.Smith

#58. Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Philip Pullman

#59. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

#60. Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.

Lisa Shearin

#62. Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Jim Butcher

#63. Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Lemony Snicket

#64. You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare

#65. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

#66. Time wounds all heels.

Groucho Marx

#67. It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

Julie James

#68. I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.
"And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.

Christopher Moore

#69. Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Terry Pratchett

#70. What will be is up to me

Kevin Green

#71. What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

Reduced Shakespeare Company

#72. We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us.

Malcolm X

#73. Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is not a good indication to pursue your dreams.

Euginia Herlihy

#74. The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Andre Breton

#75. Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions.

Steven Pinker

#76. Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Remy De Gourmont

#77. It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Grantland Rice

#78. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

#79. Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same
with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Mother Teresa

#80. To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Jean-Luc Godard

#81. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

#82. And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

Ilona Andrews

#83. I came, I saw, I concurred...

Darren E. Laws

#84. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Mother Teresa

#85. Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Louise Brooks

#86. Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Albert Einstein

#87. Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.

Charles Bukowski

#88. All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Kurt Vonnegut

#89. I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Tara Bray Smith