Doubletalk Quotes & Sayings

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures. — May Sarton

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge? — Jonas Salk

There seemed to be as much written about the art, and what the dialogue meant, as the paintings themselves. Clement Greenburg had been the first of many. It drove her crazy, the convoluted doubletalk of artist and medium and historian. Though she loved the process of creation and the images themselves, she found it difficult to put her thoughts into words. — Danika Stone

If you go off on her, you'd better record it, you know. Video, not just audio. Or it didn't happen as far as I'm concerned. — Lia Habel

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. — Carey Williams

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing. — Jim DeMint

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. — Mae West

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. — Harold Rosenberg

Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it. — Osho

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. — George Wald

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy. — Thomas S. Power

A man's entitled to feel sadness sometimes for what he's lost, even if he's found something else. — D.G. Parker

From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons. — Iyanla Vanzant

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever. — Dixie Carter