Mitigated Speech Quotes & Sayings

You taste like ass. — Simon Holt

The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is "mitigated speech," which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you don't say, "I'll need this by — Malcolm Gladwell

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher. — Swami Vivekananda

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go. — Louise Colet

How 'bout a kiss, Saumensch?" -- Rudy Steiner — Markus Zusak

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting. — Johnny Evers

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. — Livy

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff. — Jojo Moyes

Every good athlete can find the flow," continues Pastrana, "but it's what you do with it that makes you great. If you consistently use that state to do the impossible, you get confident in your ability to do the impossible. You begin to expect it. That's why we're seeing so much progression in action sports today. It's the natural result of a whole lot of people starting to expect the impossible. — Steven Kotler

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen — Martin Mull

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. — Karen DeCrow

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; — Philip Yancey

Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well. — Raymond E. Feist

I wholeheartedly believe that super heroes can play in virtually any storytelling genre. — Cullen Bunn

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses. — Joe Gibbs

I'll burn the world down to save her. -Daemon Black. — Jennifer L. Armentrout