Browses: Webster's Quotations, Facts and PhrasesIcon Group International, Incorporated, Nov 26, 2008 - 79 pages Familiar Quotations DiscoursingAllegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.ndash;AddisonI call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.ndash;Roland BarthesSermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.ndash;Harvey CoxReason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.ndash;Ursula K. Le GuinMorality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.ndash;ImmermannLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.ndash;Helen KellerIn too much discourse, truth ist lost.ndash;ProverbGood company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.ndash;Izaak WaltonI rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.ndash;Elie WieselThe first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.ndash;Virginia Woolf |
