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speech politician
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. Richard M. Nixon
speech twisted figures
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. Salman Rushdie
speech censorship free-speech
Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie
speech honest emotion
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it. Robert Orben
speech language willing
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson
speech free-speech
We shouldn't have free speech. Robin Quivers
speech firsts wells
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. Wislawa Szymborska
speech great-wisdom contentious
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Zhuangzi
speech whisky havens
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. Winston Churchill
patterns might outcomes
I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome. William J. Clinton
patterns truth-is untrue
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole. Ursula K. Le Guin
patterns looks where-you-are
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. Robert M. Pirsig
patterns resolve
patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue. Brian Gibson
patterns glory circumstances
...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory. Joni Eareckson Tada
patterns trust-in-god creation
The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation. Henry B. Eyring
patterns portraiture divinity
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture. John Locke
patterns schemes human-life
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. Bertrand Russell
patterns lists looks
If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life. Michael Ondaatje
metaphor teach condensation
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. Walter Mosley
metaphor symbols
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry Jacob Bronowski
metaphor pretentious
You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green
metaphor prisoner
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking... R. Buckminster Fuller
metaphor dictionary
The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur
metaphor capacity full-life
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. Joseph Chilton Pearce
metaphor program capacity
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. Seth Lloyd
metaphor
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Gaston Bachelard
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King