Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing… — John Searle Copy Share Image
It is deeply concerning to learn that Linda Thomas-Greenfield repeatedly praised autocratic China's aggressive and troubling expansion into Africa during a 2019… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“We’ve searched all of the homes and carried the food to Ralph’s,” Sam continued. “The problem is that all the fruit and… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Without purification of worldly interactions, speech that accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoints (syadvaad vani) will not come forth.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“As of now, the draft is over." - Kai ... His speech had been about equality. Rights. Moving past the hatred. ...… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
“The internet gave us all the power of speech, and what did we discover? That victory goes to he who shouts the… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“A vow of silence (maun) taken for a worldly purpose is considered non-silence (amaun). Anything that is spoken for the purpose of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
