The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
