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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
— Harvey Cox
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
— Mason Cooley
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
— Roland Barthes
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
— Justin Trudeau
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
— Mark Kingwell
Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.
— Mira Grant
How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
— Herbert Schiller
Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?
— George Carlin
Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.
— Mark Twain
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
— Olympia Snowe
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
— William Shakespeare
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.
— Namsoon Kang
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
— Gordon Gee
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
— Richard Steele
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
— Bell Hooks
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
— Jacques Lacan
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
— Diogenes Laertius
I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.
— William Shakespeare
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
— John Silber
Particular reinscription in the cinema of a discourse of the image and the look in indigenous conventions.
— Anonymous
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
— Camille Paglia
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
— Roland Barthes
Literature is my Utopia ... No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends
— Helen Keller
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
— John Locke
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
— Jimmy Wales
I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.
— George Allen
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
— Howard Barker
Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In
— John Calvin
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
— Zephyr Teachout
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
— Carl Hiaasen
Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
— Coreen T. Sol
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
— Josh Billings
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
— Thom Mayne
Neuter discourse is a false idol.
— Richard M. Weaver
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
— George Washington
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
— Robert Breault
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
— Plutarch
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
— Soren Kierkegaard
you don't get far in political discourse with counterfactual arguments that "it would have been even worse.
— Alan S. Blinder
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
— Dennis Potter
But why at least? What a business it is, the human discourse. I
— John Banville
Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him;
— Mikhail Bakhtin
A sat note crept into his voice. "But something's missing now from political discourse."
"What?"
"Caring about others," he said. — Ellen Levine
"What?"
"Caring about others," he said. — Ellen Levine
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
— Izaak Walton
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
— Dorothy Osborne
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
— Saint Francis De Sales
The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
— John Paul Stevens
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.
— Mikhail Bakhtin
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.
— Sergio De La Pava
Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
— Robert A. Caro
the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster
— Stephen King
There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.
— Roland Barthes
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
— Amy Koppelman
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us.
— Richard Flanagan
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
— Ellen Willis
It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.
— Ivan Turgenev
good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
— Joseph Addison
It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.
— Dave Hickey
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
— Thomas Hobbes
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
— Samuel R. Delany
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
— Juvenal
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
... CEOs are the ghost writers of the political discourse ...
— Paulo Da Costa
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
— Samuel Beckett
Now no discourse, except it be of Love;
Now I can break my fast, dine, sup and sleep
Upon the very naked name of Love. — William Shakespeare
Now I can break my fast, dine, sup and sleep
Upon the very naked name of Love. — William Shakespeare
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".
— Peter Heather
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
— Paul Craig Roberts
I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.
— Herodotus
The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Cosmopolitan discourse ... provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.
— Namsoon Kang
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
— Jim Lehrer
This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,
— Plato
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
— Neil Armstrong