Quotes about vaguely (16 Quotes)



    Christmas parable The stable boy had finished work that day, Had filled the manger with new, fragrant hay, Had fed the beasts, and usually would sleep Snuggled for warmth among the placid sheep But not tonight, for hed conceived a plan To join a merchants camel caravan And travel to far places. He had heard Exciting tales of cities which had stirred His longing for adventure. He would go Where things were happening his friends would know Why he had gone. He often said to them, 'Oh, nothing happens here in bethlehem.' He looked back once, before they traveled far, And wondered vaguely why that brilliant star.

    I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary I will call such behavior 'public service'.


    It is true, nevertheless, that in the end each man kills himself in his own selected way, fast or slow, soon or late. We all feel this, vaguely there are so many occasions to witness it before our eyes. The methods are legion and it is these which attract our attention.



    They lived upstairs and had the business downstairs, ... I can vaguely remember sitting on the porch, and I used to play in the big backyard. My wife and I, when we got married, even lived upstairs from 1978 until 1981.

    Man made one grave mistake in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all it is time for the demolition to begin.

    Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

    At times, the album has a vaguely familiar feel, because it seems as if Peter Gabriel and Sting walked down this path in the late '80s -- Gabriel with So, ... Nothing Like The Sun.

    The Court failed to identify a provision of the (Constitution) that the Connecticut law violated. Instead it spoke vaguely of the 'penumbras' and 'emanations' of the Bill of Rights, in language that continues to turn the stomach of fundamentalists (and many others), ... Radicals in Robes.

    I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.


    The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.





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