Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical - part 10 pps

This is the design and intention This is the great fact This is the main point on which the inquiry turns This is the meaning of This is the obvious answer This is the point I want to impress upon you This is the point of view This is the position of our minds This is the radical question This is the sentiment of mankind This is the starting-point This is the sum This is to be found in the fact This is what I am led to say This is what may be objected This is why I take the liberty This language is plain This leads me to the question This leads us to inquire This may be said without prejudice This might be illustrated at length This much is certain This sentiment was well-nigh universal www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 650 This, surely, is the conclusion This, then, is the answer This, then, is the drift of my illustration This, then, is what I mean by saying This will be evident at once This you can not deny Those who have watched the tendencies Thus a great deal may be done Thus analogy suggests Thus far, I willingly admit Thus I am led on to another remark Thus if you look into Thus instances occur now and then Thus it comes to pass Thus my imagination tells me Thus much, however, I may say Thus much I may be allowed to say Thus much may be sufficient to recall Thus we see Time would not permit me To a man of the highest public spirit To avoid all possibility of being misunderstood To be more explicit www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 651 To be sure, we sometimes hear To bring the matter nearer home To convince them of this To feel the true force of this argument To illustrate To make my story quite complete To me, however, it would appear To my way of conceiving such matters To prevent misapprehension To some it may sound like a paradox To sum up all that has been said To sum up in one word To take a very different instance To the conclusion thus drawn To the enormous majority of persons To these general considerations To this I answer To this it will be replied To what other cause can you ascribe To-day, as never before Treading close upon the heels Tried by this standard True it is www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 652 True, there are difficulties Truly it is a subject for astonishment Two things are made very clear U Under all the circumstances Under these favoring conditions Under this head Undoubtedly we may find Unfortunately it is a truth Unless I could be sure Up to this moment I have stated V Very strange is this indeed W We all agree as to We all feel the force of the maxim We all in equal sincerity profess We almost shudder when we see We are accustomed to lay stress upon We are all familiar with We are approaching an era We are apt to forget www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 653 We are assembled here to-day We are beginning to realize We are bound to give heed We are constantly being told We are fulfilling what I believe to be We are in the habit of saying We are met to-night We are not able to prove We are not disinterested We are quite unable to speculate We are told emphatically We are tolerably certain We believe with a sincere belief We can but pause to contemplate We can imagine the amazement of We can not but be struck with We can not escape the truth We can not have this too deeply fixed We can not too highly honor the temper of We can not wonder We can only applaud the sentiment We can only bow with awe We can presume www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 654 We can remember with pride We can see to some extent We continually hear nowadays We deeply appreciate the circumstances of We do not quarrel with those We do not question the reality We do well to recall We easily persuade ourselves We feel keenly about such things We grope blindly along We have a firm assurance We have a right to claim We have an overpowering sense We have been accustomed to We have been told by more than one We have come together to-night We have great reason to be thankful We have heard lately We have here plain proof We have need to examine We have no means of knowing We have no other alternative We have not yet solved the problem www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 655 We have sought on this occasion We have the evidence of this We have the good fortune to-night We have to admit We have witnessed on many occasions We hear it is said sometimes We hear no complaint We heartily wish and mean We hold fast to the principle We laugh to scorn the idea We may all of us agree We may be permitted to remember We may contemplate with satisfaction We may have a deep consciousness We may indeed consider We may not know precisely how We must also look We must constantly direct our purpose We must not be deceived We must not mistake We must realize conscientiously We must remember We need no proof to assure us www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 656 We need not look far for reasons We need not trouble ourselves We of this generation We often hear persons say We ought in strict propriety We pride ourselves upon the fact We rightly pay all honor We see in a variety of ways We shall all doubtless concede We shall be blind not to perceive We shall do well to remember We shall have no difficulty in determining We should be convinced We should contemplate and compare We should dread nothing so much We should lend our influence We should not question for a moment We should not, therefore, question We stand astonished at We stumble and falter and fall We take it for granted We will not stop to inquire Weighty as these conditions are www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 657 Well, gentlemen, it must be confessed Well may we explain Well, now, let us propose Well, that being the case, I say Were I to enter into a detailed description Were I to speculate What are the precise characteristics What are we to think of What are you going to do What can avail What can be more intelligible What can be more monstrous than What can I say better What commonly happens is this What could be more captivating What could be more true What do we gain by What do we understand to have been What I mean is this What I now say is What I object to is What I propose to do is What I shall actually attempt to show here www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 658 [...]... his astonishing gifts An abandoned and exaggerated grief An accidental encounter An act of folly amounting to wickedness An afternoon of painfully constrained behavior An agreeable image of serene dignity An air of artificial constraint An air of round-eyed profundity An alarmed sense of strange responsibilities An almost excessive exactness An almost sepulchral regularity and seclusion An ample and... 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A happy and compensating experience A haughty self-assertion of equality A hideous absurdity A hideous orgy of massacre and outrage A high pitch of eloquence A homelike and festive aspect A hopeless enigma A hotbed of disturbance A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation [approbation = warm approval; praise] A keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament A kind of fantastic... structure An apostle of unworldly ardor www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 675 An appreciable menace An ardent and gifted youth An arid dictum An artful and malignant enemy An assumption entirely gratuitous An assumption which proved erroneous An atmosphere of sunny gaiety An attitude of passive impartiality An authoritative and conclusive inquiry An egregious assumption [egregious = outrageously... furtive groping after knowledge A gambler's desperate chance A ghastly mixture of defiance and conceit A glaring example of rapacity [rapacity = plundering] A graceful nonentity A great and many-sided personality www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 666 A great capacity for generous indignation A great source of confusion A gross piece of stupidity A habit of riding a theory too hard A habit of rigorous... paganism A rigid avoidance of extravagance and excess A ripple of applause A restraining and conservative force A robust and consistent application A sacred and indissoluble union A sane philosophy of life A secluded dreamer of dreams A secret and wistful charm www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 670 A sense of deepening discouragement A sense of indescribable reverence A series of brief and irritating... malignancy and madness A modicum of truth A monstrous travesty A mood of hard skepticism A more than ordinary share of baseness and depravity A most laudable zeal A most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom A most unseasonable piece of impertinence A multitude of groundless alarms www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 668 A murderous tenacity about trifles A mysterious and an intractable pestilence A. .. compromises A permanent and habitual state of mind A pernicious and growing tendency A perversion of judgment A phantom of the brain A piece of grotesque stupidity A pleasant flow of appropriate language A pompous failure A potential menace to life A powerful and persuasive orator www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 669 A prevalent characteristic of her nature A prey to the tongue of the public A pristine . defiance and conceit A glaring example of rapacity [rapacity = plundering] A graceful nonentity A great and many-sided personality www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 666 A great. discontent and unrest A long tangle of unavoidable detail A look threatening and peremptory [peremptory = ending all debate or action] A many-sided and far-reaching enthusiasm A marvelous. disturbance A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation [approbation = warm approval; praise] A keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament A kind of fantastic