My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
It remains to mention some of the ways in which people have spoken misleadingly of logical form. One of the commonest of these is to talk of 'the logical form' of a statement; as if a statement could never have more than one kind of formal power; as ...
It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made d...
Vinny Gambini: [opening statements] Uh... everything that guy just said is bullshit... Thank you. D.A. Jim Trotter: Objection. Counsel's entire opening statement is argumentative. Judge Chamberlain Haller: Sustained. Counselor's entire opening statem...
I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.
Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.
Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.
A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was no...
Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more worth making than certain others, that I am the sort of person entitled to make them and perhaps abl...
Think about how much of your Bible, Old and New Testaments, is in the form not of doctrinal statements but of stories. Statements declare doctrinal truth; stories illustrate doctrinal truth. Doctrinal statements are like skeletons - bare bones, but a...
Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
