Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.[Heywood Broun] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[Dave Barry] Quote:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?[Erna Bombeck] Quote:There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.[Christopher Morley] Quote:I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.[Robert Frost] Quote:The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'[Colin Powell] Quote:It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.[Yogi Berra] Quote:If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.[Steve Martin] Quote:Men talk of[Christopher Morley] Quote:Money doesn't talk, it swears.[Bob Dylan] Quote:Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.[Adam Smith] Quote:I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.[Jack Handey] Quote:Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.[Plato] Quote:Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. [Herbert Hoover] Quote:A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. [Katharine Whitehorn] Quote:When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. [Judith Martin] Quote:Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. [Frank Zappa] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. [Heywood Broun] Quote:Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. [John Wayne] Quote:There is so much good in the worst of us,<br> And so much bad in the best of us,<br> That it hardly behooves any of us<br> To talk about the rest of us. [Johann K. Lavater] Definitions of: talkDefinition: To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.Definition: To confer; to reason; to consult. Definition: To prate; to speak impertinently. Definition: The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. Definition: Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. Definition: Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town. |
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