Quotes About Equivocation

#1. It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#2. Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Honore De Balzac

#3. There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" we can answer without equivocation, "God is!

Billy Graham

#4. Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like, "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up. This is how liberals couch statements they assume all Americans would demand they make, but which they secretly chafe at.

Ann Coulter

#5. He that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

Aphra Behn

#6. There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

Hosea Ballou

#7. An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

William Penn

#9. The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation.

Paul Valery

#11. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Robert E.Lee

#12. he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.

James Shapiro

#13. Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured
today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

Irena Klepfisz

#14. Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Suzanne Vega

#15. I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ache. It makes you feel you've inhabited your body completely.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#16. Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to "How do I bear this?" need not always be "Endure.

Anna Lyndsey

#17. I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.

Markus Zusak

#18. It's not stealing, it's retrieving.

Mora Early

#19. It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

J. R. Martinez

#20. Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

Alexandra Ripley

#21. Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

Gabrielle Union

#22. If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? But

George Orwell

#23. God is love and love is everywhere, however you need to see it or experience it, whatever name you have for it.

Kevin Daniels

#24. Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.

Charlotte Smith

#25. Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

Damon Albarn

#26. The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Gertrude Stein

#27. Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say ... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of ... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like ... after "I love you" ... or "You're going to live" ... or "It's a boy!

Demetri Martin

#28. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield

#29. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love (v. 6).

Francis Chan

#30. In the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.

Paul Auster