Alas Quote by Gordon Brown Download Open image “We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.” — Gordon Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Art Communication Lost Speech
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything.… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong, — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
