Emphasis Quotes

• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Love
  • Husband
  • Proper

• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Generation
  • Chain
  • Murderers

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• When she set Shane’s glass of Coke down in front of him, she did it with probably a little too much emphasis; he glanced up at her with a question-mark expression.[...] ‘‘What?’’ Shane asked her, and took a drink. ‘‘Did I forget to say thanks? Because, thanks. Best Coke ever. Did you make it yourself? Special recipe?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Question

• Playing smart was a big emphasis this week, ... and we still had a number of penalties. That's still a real concern.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Real
  • Smart
  • Penalties

• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Money
  • Forget
  • Promised

• It has been a big emphasis for us this week.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Emphasis

• I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty
  • Merit

• The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Time
  • Practice

• I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • I Think
  • Emphasis
  • Millennials

• I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.

  

  Dany Heatley
  • Thinking
  • Behinds
  • Emphasis

• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  

  William R. Alger
  • True
  • False
  • Eloquence

• The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Experience
  • High
  • Energy

• Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Suffering
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• That's very important for us. We need to hit some of those guys. We put a lot of emphasis on who will still be there at (Rounds) 5, 6 and 7.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Game
  • Players

• The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Perspective
  • Optimism
  • Backgrounds

• Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Prices
  • Emphasis
  • Deflation

• It's been a big emphasis for us this week. We need to step it up on pass protection because it's a big deal for us.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Deal
  • Protection

• In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.

  

  Arvid Carlsson
  • Knowledge
  • Water
  • Environment

• There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Music
  • Months
  • Six

• No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Character
  • Pathetic
  • Chekhov

• Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

  

  Chip Heath
  • Army
  • Battle
  • Failing

• Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ultimate
  • Separation
  • Clarity

• It's going to be intense. We were talking about banners the other day, me and Mike Copeland, the fifth freshman and Coach Holladay said, 'If you win your next three games, you get a ring.' That really does kind of put an emphasis on how big these next three games will be.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Win
  • Games
  • Coach

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