Looseness Quotes

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  A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

  John Calvin

  Bowels, Defects

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.61, Baker Books

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• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Blessing, Wish, Infinite

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• Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Nature, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

  John Calvin

  Godly, Men, Entering

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.558, Oxford University Press

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• All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

  John Calvin

  Trust, Christian, Prayer

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Mean, Expression

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Personality, Individual Talent

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Our Words, Afternoon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

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• It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

  Debra Winger

  Fun, Ideas, Stage

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

  Daryl Hall

  Fun, Mtv, Pioneers

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• When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Way, Comedy

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• I believe in looseness.

  Willie Nelson

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

  Anne Enright

  Sex, Grief, Feelings

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House

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• The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Independent, Discovery, Quality

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• I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

  Conrad Veidt

  Thinking, Order, Recycling

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• "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Expression, Etc

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• Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lying, Morality, Sanity

  "The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation".

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• Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

  James Belushi

  Vegas, Sin City, Cities

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• I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Example, Doctrine

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• The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.

  Lauren Groff

  Jobs, Grace, Balance

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• Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

  Wilson Follett

  Writing, Language, Disorganization

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• [The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Degrees, Lost, Equilibrium

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 14, 1958.

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• Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

  Richard M. Weaver

  School, Our World, Greek

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.167, University of Chicago Press

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• My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

  Erykah Badu

  Color, Style, Moss

  "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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