Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
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GEORGE MACDONALD Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
BIBLE, ECCLESIASTICUS Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ost...
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JESS ROW All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN That’s not fair!
Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Do not fear failure. It is a part of your journey to finding your way to success. We should all lear...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
DAN QUAYLE Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we f...
ROLAND BARTHES To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.
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1. Kiss Estelle
Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. A...
FIONA WOOD Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is w...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-t...
GINNI ROMETTY A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given t...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is ...
FELIX MENDELSSOHN So do all who lived to see such times, but that is not for you who decide. All you have to decide is...
GANDALF To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Yes. We say, but don't live up to it.
KAYLA RAE Oh... I just leave it...
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Words have as much weight as trying to jump from ...
DEYTH BANGER You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being ...
MONICA BELLUCCI For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
N.K. JEMISIN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Brevity in quotes is their virtue, verbosity their vice.
DAVID L. HATTON I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Fe...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I t...
KATE FORSYTH Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY Takes Intelligence to do & Wisdom not to.
BJ MORIN When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I think Brandon, given a few years, will be very busy. I can't even begin to tell you. Our schedule ...
CONNIE JOY If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
JOSE SARAMAGO In studying we don't fight, we plead with words to stick to our brains.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to e...
ANUJ SOMANY The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
BILL MOYERS Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS Silence has thousand meaning with no speech.Some speech may have thousand words with no meaning.
KOWSALAPATHY Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating commo...
NORMAN O. BROWN I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
CARL REINER Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
PYTHAGORAS We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old li...
MICHAEL BEDARD When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER