#declared

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#creation #declared #delusive #direct #distribution

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#declared #i #more #never #patience

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon. ↗

— Carrie Donovan

#afternoon #christy #declared #dying #entertainment

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#ball games #dead #declared #football #football games

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#along #bipartisan #border #crisis #declared

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#certain #declare #declared #defined #dogma

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold #cold war #dead #declared #long

The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#borders #combination #country #danger #dangerous

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#approved #declaration #declared #independence #know