Circumlocution Example Quotes & Sayings

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men. — John Holdren

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant. — Carolyn Murphy

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ. — Garry Trudeau

Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most important thing in those situations that you don't think too much, you don't try to change too much because then you're going to be in deep trouble, that's what I think. It's all about keep working on what's been successful for you and keep believing what you're doing is the right thing. — Jonas Gustavsson

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you. — John Wooden

I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone. — Miranda Hart

There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution. — Edgar Allan Poe

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole. — Afrika Bambaataa

Negative thinking limits God and our potential. — John C. Maxwell

She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes. — Akshay Vasu

Believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger ... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable. — C.S. Lewis

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings. — F. Sionil Jose

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government — Henry David Thoreau