Quotes Tagged "speech"

Your silence will not protect you.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Great losses are great lessons.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

All worries are less with wine.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker’s mouth is only that. It is mere vapor. His speech is empty, without substance or content. His use of language, accordingly, does not contribute to the purpose it purports to serve. No more information is communicated than if the speaker had merely exhaled. There are similarities between hot air and excrement, incidentally, which make hot air seem an especially suitable equivalent for bullshit. Just as hot air is speech that has been emptied of all informative content, so excrement is matter from which everything nutritive has been removed. Excrement may be regarded as the corpse of nourishment, what remains when the vital elements in food have been exhausted. […] In any event, it cannot serve the purposes of sustenance, any more than hot air can serve those of communication.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.