Litotes Quotes & Sayings

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work. — Vaughan Oliver

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation. — Mark Batterson

my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now. He sees not as man sees, but far clearer: judges not as man judges, but far more wisely. — Charlotte Bronte

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient. — James D. Watson

Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls. — Tori Amos

I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it. — Thalia

I want you for always ... days, years, eternities. — Franz Schubert

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up. — Anne Lamott

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) — Sarah Bakewell

I'm still the same. That's why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry. — DMX

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be. — Nelson Bunker Hunt

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road. — Ray Bolger

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life. — Rita Mae Brown

Dr. Stuart wouldn't give me a date. Apparently, there's some concern that I've become a liability for the university unless I shift my field of expertise to something more local."
"Local?"
"I believe he mentioned the word 'classroom'" She didn't bother to hide her disgust. "Bloody hell! The man is mad to think about putting you in the classroom. — Monica Burns

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. — P. J. O'Rourke