Denotes Vs Connotes Quotes & Sayings

The thing Lady didn't get, or the thing she'd forgotten, was that being a child was painful too. She was so wrapped up in losing Seth, the treacheries of him growing up, that she couldn't remember what it felt like to be on the other side. The burden of that. Sure, Seth had left her womb and never returned, but he was the one who had to do the leaving. — Edan Lepucki

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. — David Bailey

The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance. — Henry B. Eyring

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be. — Maria Montessori

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. — Winston Graham

Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit... — Toni Morrison

I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.' It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. I looked at him defiantly. — Patrick Rothfuss

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job. — Carroll O'Connor

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate. — R. Kent Hughes

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand

What we call men, are the subjects, the individual Stiles and Nokes; not the qualities by which their humanity is constituted. The name, therefore, is said to signify the subjects directly , the attributes indirectly ; it denotes the subjects, and implies, or involves, or indicates, or as we shall say henceforth connotes, the attributes. It is a connotative name. — John Stuart Mill

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. — Camryn Manheim

Whatever we allow to control our mind controls our life because our mind is the battlefield of our life. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight. — Fulton J. Sheen

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do. — Pete Burns

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web. — George Eliot