Foregoing Means Quotes & Sayings

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid. — Ray Bradbury

She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses. — Kyung-Sook Shin

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity. — Dorothy Hodgkin

Why can't our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other? — Graham Joyce

Activity is the enemy of investment returns. — Warren Buffett

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting. — Eugenie Scott

She sounds... cruel."
"There were many sides to Grace," Fiske said.
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Beatrice leaned closer to the screen. "Grace made her own husband, Nathaniel Harford, an Outcast. — Jude Watson

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them. — William Morris

If two people are meant for one another, that doesn't mean that they have to rush and be together right away. Real love takes time to grow, just like how it takes time to grow from children to adults. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Consider the sentence "He closed the door firmly." It's by no means a terrible sentence (at least it's got an active verb going for it), but ask yourself if firmly really has to be there. You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between "He closed the door" and "He slammed the door," and you'll get no argument from me . . . but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before "He closed the door firmly?" Shouldn't this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn't firmly an extra word? Isn't it redundant? — Stephen King