Quotes About Paraphrasing

#1. I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me ... Just too much risk.

Jason Calacanis

#2. Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

David McCullough

#3. I'm paraphrasing, but basically Sherlock warned that you should never theorize before you have the facts because then you twist the facts to suit the theory instead of twisting the theory to suit the facts.

Harlan Coben

#4. Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.
Ismene: Who said that?
Antigone: Hegel.
Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.
Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.
Ismene: I don't think so.

Anne Carson

#5. All people are alike when they sleep."

Jeremiah Lopper paraphrasing Aristotle (p. 146)

Joan Bauer

#6. Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Rebecca Goldstein

#7. Paraphrasing..Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Naguib Mahfouz

#8. Paraphrasing Vladimir Zatsiorsky, the idea is to train as heavy as possible and as often as possible while staying as fresh as possible.

Matt Perryman

#9. John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of "antiwar," which he felt, and I'm paraphrasing him here, was like being "anti-food" or "anti-sex," since war was such an essential element of human experience.

Mark Bowden

#10. I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

Adrian Lamo

#11. To begin with, we must protest against a habit of quoting and paraphrasing at the same time. When a man is discussing what Jesus meant, let him state first of all what He said, not what the man thinks He would have said if he had expressed Himself more clearly.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I'm paraphrasing), he's talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you're not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.

Moby

#13. Donald Trump for his part's out there saying it's outrageous for a religious leader to say that he's not a Christian. Trump's out there saying (paraphrasing), "I'm the one guy that's out there saying the attacks on Christianity are gonna stop when I get elected."

Rush Limbaugh

#14. Paraphrasing Spinoza, Alexandre adds, "In pity, sadness comes first. I am sad that the other is suffering, but I don't really love him. In compassion, love comes first."23 The

Matthieu Ricard

#15. All the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort. [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]

Daniel Coyle

#16. Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early." I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special.
"Well, a lady isn't exactly what they are expecting.

Rumi Antoinette

#17. My father toasted me mockingly with his glass. "Then eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die."

"Next week," Hades interrupted.

Zeus glowered at him. "Yes, obviously, but I was using a metaphor."
"No," his brother replied. "You were paraphrasing. Badly.

Tellulah Darling

#18. June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.

Audre Lorde

#19. I'm paraphrasing, but yeah, a friend out of the Chicago organization did." "Chicago? You tried planting your seed in the DeMarco family?

J.M. Darhower

#20. I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Studs Terkel

#21. (paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

Walter Brueggemann

#22. Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)

Ellen Klages

#23. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Will Durant

#24. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

Robert G. Thompson

#25. I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass

Ashley Newell

#26. A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still

Dale Carnegie

#27. What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

Orrin Woodward

#28. The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.

John Green

#29. One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

Anthony Kiedis

#30. Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.
They give you Hope.
Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon.

Ameya Agrawal

#32. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Brian Rock

#33. 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

#34. Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#35. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman

#36. She'd read somewhere that the definition of crazy was doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.

Laurelin Paige

#37. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

David Estes