Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The Anatomy of Conflict: If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things.… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Any nation allowing its people the right of freedom of speech is powerless to defend itself against enemies masquerading as patriotic; and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In the course of my day, I'll probably go through four pairs of shoes! I start the day in flats.I'll change into… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action")… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
“The speech lacked soaring cadences or memorable lines, yet it touched on two explosive issues at the finale. He advised Native Americans… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted… — Keith Harmon Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
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