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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. – Evelyn Beatrice Hall (Writer) – VOLTAIRE’S FRIENDS
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon (British historian)
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. – Benjamin Disraeli
If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. – John Ruskin
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. – Victor Borge
A friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of our grief and bereavement, who can’t tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen (+Dutch writer, priest, theologian)
In comic strips, people on the left always speak first. – George Carlin
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. – Yogi Berra
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett
Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister our tongue or lips. They make others good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls—and a beautiful image it is. – Blaise Pascal
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire
See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction. – George W. Bush
Film is one of the three universal languages—the other two—mathematics and music. – Frank Capra
Three things that children must know—who’s the boss, what the rules are, and who is going to enforce them. – Lew Powers
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
OOPS! – Everyone
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It takes two to speak truth; one to speak and one to listen. – Henry David Thoreau
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Suess
By and large, language is a tool for concealing truth. – George Carlin
The telephone has too many short comings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. – Dave Barry
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Voltaire
I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton
There is no harm in repeating a good thing. – Plato
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its boots on. – Winston Churchill
The less you talk, the more you’re listened to. – Abigail Van Buren
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you can say can and will be used against in court. You have the right to consult with an attorney and have an attorney present during questioning. If you cannot afford an attorney, one can be provided for you at no cost. – MIRANDA RIGHTS – (Quoted daily every time an arrest is made in the U.S.A.)
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. – Lily Tomlin
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. – Mitch Hedberg
You can speak well if you can deliver the message of your heart. – John Ford
No great genius has ever existed without a touch of madness. – Aristotle
A habit is something you can do without thinking—which is why most of us have so many of them. – Frank A. Clark
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wished we didn’t. – Erica Jong
Talk is not wasted affection. Affection is never wasted. – Henry W. Longfellow
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We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet anew neighbor. We are cleaning up the air, but polluted the soul. We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio’s future in 1920.
Wise men speak because they have something to say—fools because they have to say something. – Plato
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. – G. B. Stern
Not many signs in life, urban or rural, exceed in interest a knock on the door. – C. Lamb
The only way you can control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. –Tom Hanks
Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings. – Arthur Ponsomby
E-mail is like after a hard day’s work, coming home and finding 70 people in your kitchen. – John O’Donoghue
I’ve never met an interesting person with a foul mouth. – Marilyn Von Savant
You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to your computer to turn your brain on. – Steve Jobs
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi
“Once I knew a nosey gnu that had a nose for news, a nose like no newsman ever knew, but now he’s dead and though I know another nosey gnu, I’ll never know a gnu that knew the news that that gnu knew.”– Caveman Wiley in B.C. (the comic strip) – Johnny Hart
If thought corrupts language, language also corrupts thoughts. – George Orwell
Bureaucracy is the art of making the impossible possible – Javier Pascual Salceeda
There are two kinds of people in the world; those who finish what they start and….” – Brad Ramsey
“Only two kinds of people can talk without inhibitions—strangers or lovers. Everything in between is just negotiating.” – James Grippano – THE INFORMANT
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – Soren A. Kierkegaard
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We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet anew neighbor. We are cleaning up the air, but polluted the soul. We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin
Do what you love and you will find a way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins
There are two ways to slide easily through life—to believe everything, or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorant in the community. – Oscar Wilde
He who hesitates is not necessarily lost, but he may not be able to get another chance to get off the freeway for a while. – The story of my life
The fewer the words, the better the prayer. – Martin Luther
“Is anybody at Time Warner embarrassed by these by these lyrics? Will the executives at Time Warner stand up and say these things in public? We’re not talking about censorship—we’re talking about citizenship.” – (Referring to Ice T’s rap record COP KILLER) – William Bennett – Former Secretary of Education. – 1995
Most rock journalism is by people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read. – Frank Zappa
No! – Probably the most used quote in human history
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – German proverb
Get some facts first. You can distrust them later. – Mark Twain
Feelings of worth can flourish in an atmosphere when individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexable—the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. – Virginia Satir
“An angry person may have a reason to be enraged. His greatest problem, however, could be that he lacks the words to think and communicate clearly and effectively. One does not need to have a huge vocabulary to formulate and express ideas coherently although it helps. One certainly needs more than obscene expressions for copulation and incest.” – Cecil Johnson– Columnist for the FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
The longer one keeps a secret, the riskier the outcome. – Gary Pulliam
Everyone smiles in the same language. – George Carlin
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The greeting card industry is living proof that so many cannot say what they really want to say because of their lack of verbal communication skills. – Unknown
One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. – Andy Rooney
“On communication – Wisdom usually does not fall from high places. The mighty and the splendid have taught me little. I have learned more from my dog that from all the great books I have ever read. The wisdom of my dog is the product of his inability to conceal his wants. When he yearns to be loved, there is no pouting in the corner. There are no games entitled, “Guess what’s the matter with me!” He puts his head on my lap, wags his tail, and looks up at me with kind eyes, waiting to be petted. No professor or sage ever told me I might have a more successful life if I simply asked for love when I needed it.” – Gerry Spence – HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
“Lack of communication between marriage partners can bring about a situation in which the two lead parallel lives, moving in lines that seldom meet.” – Personal viewpoint – LONELINESS in a WORLD of MASS CONNECTION - 2010
If we silence opinion, we may be silencing the truth. – John Stuart Mill
People who use profanity as a club to bash others are imprisoned by the limitations of their vocabulary. – Cecil Johnson – Columnist for FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
The secret of humor is surprise. – Aristotle
“Am I in heaven?” asked Denise Lockie after her plane crash-landed on the frozen Hudson River. “No, and I’m no angel,” said Mark Hood, as he urged her to get moving quickly toward the exit.
Jounalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. – Marguerite Duras
“By the time students are in high school, they should have a vocabulary sufficient to make it unnecessary to use obscenities as a crutch. But the American public is being deluged with so much mediocre entertainment from comedians, music performers and movie writers who cover their lack of imagination and talent with hefty helpings of copulative and incestuous verbiage.”– Cecil Johnson – Columnist for FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
“This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.” – Lee Richardson on Peter Finch (Howard Beale) in NETWORK – Paddy Cheyevsky - (Screenplay)
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil – Victor Hugo
The superior man is modest in his speech but decisive in his actions. – Confucius
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Loneliness at its worse is when those closest to you cease communicating with you for unknown reasons. – Gary Pulliam
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience and love. I was not even into the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was into the music of men. – Eric Clapton
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. – Erica Jong
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fulfilled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. – Hermann Hesse
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed. – Lily Tomlin
