No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles
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SOPHOCLES What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a w...
LEMONY SNICKET Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
INGRID BERGMAN A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary.
INGRID BERGMAN A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
UNKNOWN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of natur...
HELEN KELLER The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.
SOPHOCLES We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.
ALAIN DE BOTTON All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summo...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the ...
LANGSTON HUGHES There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD M. NIXON What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a w...
LEMONY SNICKET No noble thing can be done without risks
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is ...
HANNAH ARENDT No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the un...
LUCY LARCOM Leave me to my own absurdity.
SOPHOCLES In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.
SOPHOCLES But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what...
JOHN GAY Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous c...
MARIA MONTESSORI I have no intention of returning to the commission until it is cleansed of the stain and stench of b...
RICHARD HIRSCHHAUT God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no chara...
QUINTILIAN Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language
ALFRED WHITEHEAD Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In the tabloid age, people think that they can say what they want. This is not (covered) by free spe...
CAROL THORP Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b...
ELIZABETH HAYDON The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress sh...
GREG ALLEN The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing th...
JOHN RUSKIN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She i...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation
DANIEL WEBSTER a tea stain is similar to that of your own soul. if your shirt were to be stained with tea do not pu...
KELLY BRYAN The story of man’s progress from chaos to order, from barbarism to civilization, is nothing but a ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading n...
MARK TWAIN Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin ar...
ANNE CARSON Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose nobl...
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble...
JOANNA BAILLIE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Snoop, by nature of what he does, is a storyteller.
KATHLEEN SCHMIDT If the method is noble - to liberate our land, to liberate our people from the Israeli deals, to rec...
MAHMOUD ZAHAR This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a sta...
RJ CYLER Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be ca...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
ADAM DRIVER Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is...
MARTIN GARDNER The question is, what are the rights of free speech? Our belief is, no matter what, we should releas...
JOSE LEAL It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of ...
POPE LEO XIII And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication o...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is n...
FULTON J. SHEEN The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Of course. Is that a stain on the rug? I'll get it. It's my life, and that's my purpose, that stain....
BRIAN NICHOLS A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
SUSAN GRIFFIN Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
RACHEL HARTMAN If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have ...
ALEXANDER SMITH Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo...
MARK TWAIN It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evi...
LYDIA M. CHILD A person's character is revealed by their speech
GREEK PROVERB Noble houskeepers neede no dores.
GEORGE HERBERT What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication<...
T.S. ELIOT In nature everything is exquisite, so by nature so are we! So dive back in your nature!
MAURICE SPEES No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is const...
TOM WOLFE My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness......
JOHN CONSTABLE His nature is too noble for the world.
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove f...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Liv...
BUDDHA Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic ...
JACOB BRONOWSKI By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is n...
CARLOS FUENTES Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to...
DEAN INGE Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasu...
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasu...
HENRY ST. JOHN Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
THOMAS HOBBES Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it h...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world governme...
JAN TINBERGEN Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unche...
CICERO The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it
is only to be met with in minds wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON Pain Is Caused By Pleasure
SULLY ERNA There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.
DEYTH BANGER But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. Th...
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A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
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SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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Y...
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