Verbal Quotes

264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is… — Terry Eagleton
Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we… — Gary Chapman
Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you? — Ilona Andrews
Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was… — Ted Dekker
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood… — Jane Jacobs
You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the… — Eckhart Tolle
I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely… — Peter Cameron
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some… — A. J. Jacobs
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. — William Shakespeare
Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love — Laurie Faria Stolarz
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy… — Daniel J. Siegel
Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a… — Anne Frank
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on… — Sarah Vowell
Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here — Gail Carriger
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. — Malcolm Gladwell
A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . . — Suzanne Collins
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes. — Gail Carriger
Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his… — Margaret Atwood
...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation! — Gail Carriger
Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to… — C.S. Lewis
The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and… — Gail Carriger
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave… — Madeleine L'Engle
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical… — Jon Stewart

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