Hyperbaton Examples Quotes & Sayings

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding

For no one knows what lies under the sands of the world's great deserts. No one knows how many times poor Earth has reeled under blows from comets, has lost or captured moons, has changed its air, its very nature. No one knows what has existed and has vanished beyond recovery, evidence for the number of times man has understood and has forgotten again that his mind and flesh and life and movements are made of star stuff, sun stuff, planet stuff; that the sun's being is his, and what sort of events may be expected, because of the meshings of the planets - and how an intelligent husbanding of humanity's resources may be effected based on the most skilled and sensitive of forecasting, by those whose minds are instruments to record the celestial dance. — Doris Lessing

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. — Al Yankovic

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb

He earned a national reputation managing large political campaigns, turning them into media-driven extravaganzas with emphasis on sound bites and perception over any kind of substance, and his win rate was astonishingly high. That probably said more for the gullibility of the modern voter than the high standards of the modern candidate, Michelle thought. — David Baldacci

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much. — John Hurt

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away. — Willis Harman

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it. — Alan Cohen

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. — Ron Chernow

who promises you fairness is lying. — Bridget Blackwood

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history. — James P. Carse

The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing attractors, one at zero and the other, in effect, ringing the set at a distance of infinity. — James Gleick

Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously. — Michael Josephson

Is this blackmail or bribery?"
"Neither. It's insurance."
"Insurance?"
"Yeah. That's twelve cups of coffee. Twelve trips to Grounds. Twelve chances to see you. — Kim Holden