Copula Quotes & Sayings

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. — Joseph Rotblat

Having a blood family means suddenly revising a definition of family that I have, over many years, learned to accept. How can I hold both concepts in my mind or find room for both families in my heart? — Soojung Jo

The vain man does not think he is vain. — Gilbert Ryle

right now I feel like I just ate a cold snail raw. — Ray Bradbury

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. — William Falconer

This is every writer's nightmare
the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us ... — Dan Simmons

This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of the copula in affirmations, but has also a meaning of its own, in virtue of which it may itself be made the predicate of a proposition. — John Stuart Mill

Believe me, You are beautiful..,
Trust me, I am not flirting — Lovely Goyal

I hear you have a birthday today."
Sally laughed. "I don't know where you could have possibly heard that."
"It might have been from a certain blonde running around the mansion reminding everyone of the party of the century taking place in honor of, and I quote, 'the most bad ass gypsy healer known to man', which was followed up with a, 'no offense to Rachel, but fact is fact. — Quinn Loftis

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail. — Jack White

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. — Elliott Smith

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true. — Martine Leavitt

The semanticists maintained that everything depends on how you interpret the words "potato," "is" and "moving." Since the key here is the operational copula "is," one must examine "is" rigorously. Whereupon they set to work on an Encyclopedia of Cosmic Semasiology, devoting the first four volumes to a discussion of the operational referents of "is." The neopositivists maintained that it is not clusters of potatoes one directly perceives, but clusters of sensory impressions. Then, employing symbolic logic, they created terms for "cluster of impressions" and "cluster of potatoes," devised a special calculus of propositions all in algebraic signs and after using up several seas of ink reached the mathematically precise and absolutely undeniable conclusion that 0=0. — Stanislaw Lem