Adages Quotes - Page 5

• Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

  Joni Mitchell

  Everyday, Lost, Live Everyday

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Way, Language, Music Is

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly.

  Donald Shoup

  Intelligent, Technology, Keys

  Source: translib.blogspot.com

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• I think I've always believed in Ronald Reagan's adage, "Peace through Strength." Let's grow stronger on a transatlantic basis in our economies.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Stronger, Economy

  "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Expression, Choices, Challenges

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• Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.

  Zeno Vendler

  Pain, Color, Feelings

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• In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Art, Distance, Reality

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• After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Night, Ideas

  Remarks on the Occasion of 83rd Birthday Gala, delivered 3 February 1994

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• It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Marriage, War, Women

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• There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

  Terri Windling

  Plot, Done, World

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• Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Light, Looks

  "Lanterns and Lances". Book by James Thurber. Foreword, 1961.

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• There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught.

  Jerry Lawler

  Neighbor, Caught, Love Thy Neighbor

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• It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  May, Gypsy, Tomorrow

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• I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Believe, Teaching

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

  Leonard Sweet

  Dark, Light, Age

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• I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

  W. Earl Brown

  Hero, Arms, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.

  Emile Gaboriau

  Believe, Sacrifice, Honor

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• It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.

  Thomas Crum

  Judging, Firsts, Miles

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

  e. e. cummings

  Way, Born, Concern

  E. E. Cummings' foreword to a collection of "Krazy Kat" comic strips (1946); later published in E. E. Cummings "A Miscellany Revised", 1965.

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• There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

  Jeremy Jordan

  Using Words

  Source: collider.com

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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• It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

  Ivan Doig

  Believe, Biblical, Forgiving

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• The Good Wife was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that Ive had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of work begets work actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.

  Carrie Preston

  Character, Long, Wife

  "‘True Blood’: Carrie Preston Talks Season 5 And Emmy Buzz For Her Role On ‘The Good Wife’" by Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.

  Randy Travis

  Hero, Helping

  Song: Heroes And Friends, 1990

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• As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jobs, White, Black

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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