Appellative Quotes & Sayings

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there. — Andrea Camilleri

Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is holiness to the Lord. — Jeremy Taylor

He sure put things into words good. — S.E. Hinton

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. — Mahatma Gandhi

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. — Steven Bochco

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world. — Stephen Levine

Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds. — Suetonius

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice. — Russell Simmons

How'd you get through yesterday, though?"
"Running away, you, sarcasm, violence, and last but not least, tequila. — Kylie Scott

Your homecoming will be my homecoming — E. E. Cummings

If you compare the number of children who are diagnosed as autistic64 to the frequency with which the term autism has been used in American newspapers,65 you'll find that there is an almost perfect one-to-one correspondence (figure 7-4), with both having increased markedly in recent years. — Nate Silver

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe. — Romany Malco

They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things. — Mac Miller

O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son.
How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are sorry. Get down on the mats and make a proper bow! — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville