Evaluatively Quotes & Sayings

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. — Jackie Kennedy

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out. — Serj Tankian

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up. — George Iles

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl. — Paul McCartney

Discussions about the ethics of suicide are immediately biased by the verb that customarily attaches to it in English. One "commits" suicide. Because this presupposes the wrongfulness of the suicide, I avoid that verb, opting instead for "carry out" suicide. This is evaluatively neutral, avoiding both the usual bias against suicide and the unusual bias in favor of it that the verb "achieve" would effect. "Carry out" is preferable to "practice", which implies something ongoing. Finally, "carry out" also implies a suicide that is completed rather than merely attempted. — David Benatar

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health. — Oprah Winfrey

The town had a faint air of benign neglect that only added to its charm: a seaside village with white clapboard buildings, seagulls wheeling overhead, uneven brick sidewalks and local shops. They passed a gas station, several old storefronts with plate-glass windows, a diner, a funeral parlor, a movie theater turned into a bookstore, and an eighteenth-century sea captain's mansion, complete with widow's walk. A sign out front identified it as the Exmouth Historical Society and Museum. — Douglas Preston

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. — Bertrand Russell

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Being psychic does not necessarily mean seeing an event that has not yet occurred. It is rather seeing the inner nature of something. — Frederick Lenz

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. — Bram Stoker

One of the best T-shirts I ever saw,said: i was happy once,but i'm better now. — Michael Thomas Ford