A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Johann Georg Zimmermann

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
Rowan D. Williams

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

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
A. R. Ammons

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.
Teresa de Lauretis

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
Lawrence Summers

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
Joe Bob Briggs

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Jacques Derrida

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
Marie Corelli

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth L. Pike

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Roland Barthes

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
Asa Gray

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Jim Lehrer

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
Harold Bloom

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
James Newman