Euphemized Quotes & Sayings

As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness. — J. Budziszewski

Birds exist to teach us things about the sky. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Everything is firing on all cylinders for me, — Rory McIlroy

Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers. — Edgar Bronfman Jr.

No One dies a nobody. You will always be a somebody for someone. — Trishna Damodar

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well. — Angus Stone

Science of Deduction — Arthur Conan Doyle

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement
a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible. — David Elkind

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life. — Noel Fisher

At the opposite end of the spectrum from pacifism, we have a pusillanimous reluctance to use religious names for warring factions. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are euphemized to 'Nationalists' and 'Loyalists' respectively. — Richard Dawkins

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users. — Satya Nadella

He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat — Jeaniene Frost

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. — Sean Penn