Rephrased Quotes

#1. The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling.

William Ury

#2. Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

Peter Coyote

#3. A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Octavio Paz

#4. Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

Richelle Mead

#5. Thoreau wrote, "Simplify! Simplify!" And, indeed, simplification is one mark of real genius.

Dan Ariely

#6. How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

Bert Murray

#7. I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

Dennis Rodman

#8. Organizing among agency workers is structurally impossible, and the enforced atomization of the agency worker is rephrased as 'individual choice', 'your freedom'.

Nina Power

#9. In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.

Andrew Weil

#10. in 2001, one Norwegian enthusiast even implemented Internet Protocol with a set of carrier pigeons. (Observers reported a disappointing 56 percent packet loss rate: rephrased in English, five out of the nine pigeons appeared to have wandered off, or have been eaten.)

Tung-Hui Hu

#11. Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

Rumi

#12. I'm going to crash if you keep that up. You're sort of distracting.'
He laughed again at her matter-of-fact observation. 'I'm sort of distracting? I obviously need to try harder.

Christine Feehan

#13. The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

Angela Carter

#14. Baseball," he said. "Babe Ruth." Dixie Clay saw now that the boy wore a satchel honeycombed with rolled newspapers. The world was still going on, was it.

Tom Franklin

#15. Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?

Jeff Brown

#16. Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

Tunde Adebimpe

#17. Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

Eric Hobsbawm

#18. Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

Michael Shannon

#19. Karen was only five minutes late. She hugged Samantha, pecked

John Grisham