Communication Quote by Lydia Sigourney Download Open image “The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.” — Lydia Sigourney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Conversation Desire Pride Shining Subversive Talking Vanity
“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since it is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it triumphs most completely over other human preoccupations in places sheltered from view. Thus it is paradoxically in hiding that the secrets of desire come to light, that hegemonic impositions and their reversals, evasions, and subversions are… — Joan Cocks Copy Share
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
