Top 42 Pronouncement Quotes
#1. Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
Abraham Verghese
#2. Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.
Lizz Winstead
#3. He was trying to tell me something."
Derek snorted. "Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook - if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
Kelley Armstrong
#4. A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. The Herald Tribune headed the story, "PRESIDENT SAYS PRAYER IS PART OF DEMOCRACY." The implication in such a pronouncement, emanating from the seat of government, is that religious faith is a condition, or even a precondition, of the democratic life.
E.B. White
#6. Many devout Muslims, particularly in the east, understood that attacking helpless people, nonbelievers or not, was contrary to the tenets of Islam. Still, a vast number of Muslims saw the pronouncement of jihad as an endorsement for killing and looting.
Eric Bogosian
#7. Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: Things that start in the rain end well.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#8. Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days ... bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#9. Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!
Pope Clement XIII
#10. What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
Benjamin Cardozo
#11. Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover.
Robert Dallek
#12. The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.
Mathew Tobriner
#13. Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'
Emmet Gowin
#14. I think the scientists have really caught the attention of the people of this country, and of course, they elected representatives by their very clear pronouncement that if we don't do something, we'll be in a lot of trouble.
Barbara Boxer
#15. What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.
Douglas Huebler
#16. Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.
Josh Lanyon
#17. His Pronouncement is Your Announcement -I will make thy name great
Ikechukwu Joseph
#18. There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.
Christopher Alexander
#19. We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.
Janet Macunovich
#20. Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.
Norman Cousins
#21. I think I can stand up, though!" He demonstrated the questionable optimism of this pronouncement by falling on his face.
Scott Lynch
#22. That pronouncement went over about as well as an all-vegan buffet at a Cattlemen's Association dinner.
Dianne Duvall
#23. Old Lowji's nasty remark would haunt Farrokh forever: "Immigrants are immigrants all their lives!" Once someone makes such a negative pronouncement, you might refute it but you never forget it; some ideas are so vividly planted, they become visible objects, actual things.
John Irving
#24. A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship's unromantic behaviour had given Cecilia a distaste for him. She
Georgette Heyer
#25. Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#26. Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement
Herbert Hoover
#27. Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
Leo Szilard
#28. Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.
Tom Gjelten
#29. The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.
Boris Pasternak
#30. The work of art itself is ... a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
Susan Sontag
#33. If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.
Nirmala Srivastava
#34. When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Nelson Mandela
#36. Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti
#37. Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
Terry Eagleton
#38. Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!
Alan Grayson
#39. The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.
Gilles Marini
#40. If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
George Monbiot
#41. But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.
Paul Bettany
#42. The only way you can hurt the body is not use it,
Jack LaLanne
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