Periphrasis Quotes

#1. As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Gore Vidal

#2. He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Alethea Kontis

#3. Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Holly Black

#4. We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#7. People converted by fear-mongering are people converted from evil, not to the truth.

Robert Farrar Capon

#8. I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

#9. Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries

Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H

#10. Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

Kent Haruf

#13. Henry James was our master of periphrasis
the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Edward Abbey