Verbal Quotes - page 7

Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love. (Laurie Faria Stolarz)
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. View quote
Marya Mannes
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation. View quote
Robert Hewison
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway. View quote
Robin Marantz Henig
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. View quote
Rollo May
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for. View quote
Rollo May
To see human beings as signifying animals - even outside the practice of verbal language - and to see that their ability to produce and to interpret signs, as well as their ability to draw inferences, is rooted in the same cognitive structures, represent a way to give form to our experience. View quote
Umberto Eco
All true poets are, of course, primarily concerned with artifact, the making of a verbal construct, a durable work of art. View quote
Vernon Scannell
This Christian ceremonial system does not differ essentially from that against which the prophets protested; with a few verbal changes their invectives would still apply. View quote
Walter Rauschenbusch
The negation of cognition thus correlates on the verbal level. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; you chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. View quote
Haruki Murakami
For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. (Max Lucado)
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. View quote
Marissa Mayer
If we designate as intelligence, quantitatively, the total of mental functioning, it is evident that the suppression of verbal thought involves a defect, relatively very important among cultivated individuals leading a complex social life: the uneducated person from this point of view is a defective. View quote
Henri Piéron
When Richard Dawkins first published his idea of a meme, he made it clear he was speaking of "a unit of imitation"... Memes were supposed to be exclusive triumphs of humanity. But memes come in two different kinds-behavioral and verbal. ...behavioral memes began brain-hopping long before there were such things as human minds. View quote
Howard Bloom
If Pygmalion, is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Verbal abuse and intimidation are not fighting. View quote
Lu Xun
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. View quote
W. Clement Stone
Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions. Speak the word soul, and unbelievers will automatically become deaf to what follows. Those who believe in souls will always hear you through the mental constructs that they formed on Earth. Let us call this nonmatter twin the... ah... ka. View quote
Philip José Farmer
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form. View quote
Philip Larkin
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. (Terry Eagleton)
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. View quote
Richard Rohr
The only link between the verbal and objective world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all "knowledge" is structural. View quote
Alfred Korzybski