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The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
Christine Baranski
Difficult
,
Sound
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
Jack Kingston
Christian
,
Away
,
Group
So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.
Loretta Swit
Life
,
Love
,
Car
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Thomas Malthus
Attention
,
Theory
,
Improve
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
Warwick Davis
Saying
,
Trying
,
Else
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
Simon Newcomb
Men
,
Best
,
Down
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan Perlis
Understand
,
Write
,
Program
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Noah Webster
Religion
,
Understand
,
Christian
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
Happy
,
Working
,
Tell
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer
Work
,
May
,
Often
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
Herbert Simon
God
,
Fact
,
System
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
Harold H. Greene
Time
,
Made
,
Become
People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.
Cathy McMorris
Government
,
Decision
,
Knowing
We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
Albert Finney
Through
,
Before
,
Her
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
Jami Gertz
Men
,
Around
,
Reading
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
Boris Yeltsin
History
,
Mistakes
,
Made
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
David Limbaugh
Wisdom
,
Winning
,
May
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.
David Kay
Wish
,
Fact
,
Almost
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
David Kay
Crisis
,
Important
,
After
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
Alfred Korzybski
Important
,
Two
,
Structure
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
Star Jones
God
,
Sometimes
,
Public
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.
Christopher Dodd
Decision
,
Same
,
Wrong
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull
Dreams
,
Daily
,
Reality
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
Sandra Bernhard
Humanist
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
Diane Wakoski
War
,
Someone
,
Woman
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Harry Mathews
Writing
,
Said
,
Liberated
I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
Park Geun-hye
Work
,
Peace
,
History
The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!
Hjalmar Schacht
Idea
,
Year
,
Plan
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Theodore White
Two
,
Wonderful
,
Kinds
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
Ann Beattie
Name
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