Syntagmatic Quotes

#1. Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#2. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

Libba Bray

#3. When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

Kate Gosselin

#4. We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

#5. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Bertolt Brecht

#6. You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days.

John Le Carre

#7. John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.

Philip Schaff

#8. I write every book as if I'm dying with no promise of next month, done.

Tyronne Jacques

#9. There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#10. Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now ...

Belle Whittington

#11. I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two ... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

Max Barry

#12. You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

Harry Reid

#13. The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

J.G. Holland