Speaking Quotes

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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The… — Fritjof Capra
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there… — Henry David Thoreau
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we… — Salman Rushdie
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood… — Bharati Mukherjee
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity… — Pope John Paul II
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person. — Seneca the Younger
The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife,… — Margaret Chan
If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will… — Pope Benedict XVI
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. — Thomas Jefferson
My friends drink everywhere. They even drink at the laundromat. I tried drinking at the laundromat, and I thought I was in a submarine, navigating… — Mike Birbiglia
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all… — William Shakespeare
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to… — George Washington
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on… — Rajneesh
Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're… — Scott Stossel
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers. — Franz Liszt

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