Discourse Quotes

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington

Men, Business, Short

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James

Faith, Two, Universe

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
Mos Def

Crazy, Rude, Shy

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

Friendship, Faith, Loyalty

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller

Change, Weather, Fools

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke

Cannot, Another, Greater

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Bryant H. McGill

Life, Wise, Actions

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
Cornel West

Black, Racism, Moral

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.
Tony Campolo

Christian, Why, Religious

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.
James Wolcott

President, Lady, Washington

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

Good, Nothing, Quick

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
George Whitefield

Mind, Feeling, Speak

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
Nick Clegg

Politics, Insecure, Become

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
George Saunders

Bad, Culture, Guy

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

Sunshine, Two, Here

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
Dan Savage

Reason, Actually, Choir

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
David E. Price

Faith, Political, Country

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Knowledge, Scientific

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.
Jimmy Wales

Important, Long, Three

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.
Andrew Weil

Else, Worry, Attention

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
Eric Alterman

Judge, Busy, Sense

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike

Universe, Language, Rules

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
George Soros

Winner, Matter, Fact

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

Rules, System, Poetic

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

Today, Difficult, Public

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
Carl Hiaasen

Level, Initiative, Obama

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

Health, Problems, Sense

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

Power, Business, Everybody

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

Important, Fact, Less

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
John O. Brennan

Important, American, While

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