Linguistique Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. — John Berryman

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble. — George F. Will

No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain. — Pat Robertson

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. — Lee Daniels

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money. — P.Sainath

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one. — Stuart Duncan

The Third Precept, to refrain from sexual misconduct, reminds us not to act out of sexual desire in such a way as to cause harm to another ... The spirit of this precept asks us to look at the motivation behind our actions. To pay attention in this way allows us, as laypeople, to discover how sexuality can be connected to the heart and how it can be an expression of love, caring, and genuine intimacy. We have almost all been fools at some time in our sexual lives, and we have also used sex to try to touch what is beautiful, to touch another person deeply. Conscious sexuality is an essential part of living a mindful life (86). — Jack Kornfield

She had turned to her anger, harboring herself there. A ship anchored in tumultuous water. — Sarah Noffke

Arboreal, a fine word. Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say. Used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in trees. All planes and rockets and bombs are simply elaborations on that primate instinct. — Margaret Atwood

We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree.
"Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents.
"Can't help you there, I'm afraid."
In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names. — Emma Donoghue