Brimblecombe Quotes & Sayings

one text can change the whole dynamic of a budding relationship. In a certain context, even just saying something as innocuous as "Hey, let's hang out sometime" or spelling errors or punctuation choices can irritate someone. When I spoke with Sherry Turkle about this, she said that texting, unlike an in-person conversation, is not a forgiving medium for mistakes. — Aziz Ansari

I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wisdom speaks with a silent tongue. — Matthew Skelton

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family. — Bill De Blasio

I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

you know, I'm only marrying you for sex and food. — J.D. Robb

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. — Martin Dugard

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day. — Marion Cotillard

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.
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Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access. — Jurgen Habermas