Pronounce Quotes

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. (George Santayana)
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. View quote
Vivien Leigh
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. View quote
Mark Twain
In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. View quote
Simone Weil
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. View quote
Joaquin Miller
The very loss of our church establishment, though, as in all human institutions, some defects may be found in it, would in itself be attended with the most fatal consequences. No prudent man dares hastily pronounce how for its destruction might not greatly endanger our civil institutions. View quote
William Wilberforce
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell me a story of deep delight. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious. View quote
Michael Chabon
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. View quote
William Cowper
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. (Giordano Bruno)
When anyone tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. View quote
David Hume
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No. View quote
Plutarch
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. View quote
Charles Hodge
I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. View quote
Meg Cabot
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.' View quote
Cary Fukunaga
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. View quote
Emanuel Celler
I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly. View quote
Joe Gold
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. (Morris Graves)
My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good. View quote
Tina Yothers
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! View quote
William Strunk, Jr.
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore to Him the former, and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus. These palpable interpolations and falsifications of His doctrines, led me to try to sift them apart. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
...we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled in commerce, pre-eminent in arts, foremost in the pursuits of philosophy and science, and established in all the blessings of civil society; we are in the possession of peace, of happiness, and of liberty; we are under the guidance of a mild and beneficent religion; and we are protected by impartial laws, and the purest administration of justice: we are living under a system of government which our own happy experience leads us to pronounce the best and wisest which has ever yet been framed; a system which has become the admiration of the world. View quote
William Pitt the Younger