Proclamations Quotes

#1. It is in the immediacy of our personal lives that our proclamations for a better world acquire real life meaning.

Meryn G. Callander

#2. More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

John Barth

#3. Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Peter Breggin

#6. Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Formal declaration of jihad in Constantinople, followed by well-organized demonstrations on the streets.32 Proclamations and pamphlets were distributed.

Eric Bogosian

#8. This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.

Julian Baggini

#9. My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Suzanne Finnamore

#10. We have a very busy schedule of cryptic proclamations and appearing where we're least expected to get back to.

Rachel Aaron

#11. The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Stendhal

#13. With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. No." A short, crazed laugh. "Juliette. Please. Please. Don't tell me he's filled your head with romantic notions. Please don't tell me you fell for his false proclamations -

Tahereh Mafi

#15. If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

Beck

#16. It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.

Chelsea Handler

#17. Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Henry Miller

#19. It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman ... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.

Antonin Scalia

#20. It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

Timothy Keller

#21. She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping - that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing.

Ursula Hegi

#22. Your hair is an act of God.

Sarah Kane

#23. Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

Molly Ivins

#24. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Viktor E. Frankl

#25. Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

Demetri Martin

#26. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE.

Kanye West

#27. Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#28. You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Vladimir Lenin

#29. I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be done by me...

Deyth Banger

#31. It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Julian Baggini