Emphasis Quotes

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

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

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

I think it is necessary to sit down and work for years and years to get it right. I think that's the main thing, that's what the emphasis has got to be on: individual work.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.