Discourse Quotations

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

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.

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

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.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

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

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.

My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body image and female sexuality.

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

Mr. Hayworth is truly out of touch with Arizonans if he doesnt believe there is an emergency at our border or that the federal government has a responsibility, ... Has the discourse in Washington, D.C., become this despicable?

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, 1 their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible.

He welcomes the discourse because he understands there are two sides to every trade and people need to understand why there are traders who are betting against them. I can't stress that enough.

He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early college, he kind of got away from the church, and ended up going to St. John's University in Minnesota. Tom was very intellectual, enjoyed the discourse with monks, had a lot of questions, and I think the monks provided a great insight into the faith he had grown up with and somehow had been missing.

I find it absolutely outrageous that pressure from a special-interest group like (the Council on American Islamic Relations) CAIR can result in the abandonment of free speech and open discourse on a talk radio show,

I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right.

John allows people to do their jobs by not micro-managing. Yet, at the same time, he stays on top of everything. He allows and encourages people to be creative. There's a great deal of dialogue and discourse that takes place among the coaching staff about the way things should be. Some people have a tendency in the way they manage to mute that. John does a good job of allowing healthy confrontation, because it brings out better ideas and decisions.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

I think the McCain and Lieberman talk about the need for civility in public discourse is right at the core of our mission,

It appears that ABC Radio has caved to an organization that condemns talk radio hosts like me, but has never condemned Hamas, Hezbollah, and one that wouldn't specifically condemn al-Qaida for three months after 9-11.As a fan of talk radio, I find it absolutely outrageous that pressure from a special interest group like CAIR can result in the abandonment of free speech and open discourse on a talk radio show. As a conservative talk host whose job is to have an open, honest conversation each day with my listeners, I believe caving to this pressure is a disaster.

Transparency is the best disinfectant. If they would disclose everything and give the public time to review it, that would change the discourse dramatically.

That would be a terrible thing all around. I doubt they want it to get to that point. Because I have seen it go bad. It would be too bad if there weren't a rational discourse to see whether something could be worked out.

We're creating a new dialogue and a new discourse concerning whether this is possible in a public policy context.

What you've done is effectively cut off any discourse or dialogue. If we're only going to govern by anger, then we've lost the game.

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.

Dr. Pellegrino teaches by example and witnesses to the virtues he prizes in health care. He will bring to the Council wisdom, respectful discourse and a strong commitment to making health care work for the most vulnerable. All of us here at the Center have been receiving congratulatory phone calls and e-mail messages all week from friends and colleagues around the world.

To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental.

The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.

And were it not for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy in this world and the hereafter, a grievous chastisement would certainly have touched you on account of the discourse which you entered into.

PURE FORMALISM as such, without attention to referential social axioms, is powerless to capture the relevance of many discourse grammatical functions.

Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government.

Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

I?m part of the discourse now. I?m not just on the fringe commentating about the auto industry.

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

His discourse was extreme -- he accused Bush of terrorism -- but his contributions showed that he could force a run-off.

In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal in US-Iran relations. Lack of diplomatic relations, often between countries at conflict, even at war, is the abnormality, not the norm.

Chairman Dean's outrageous comparison today between the United States and Iran is reckless and wrong. By equating the United States of America to an oppressive regime that promotes anti-Semitism, suppresses women and restricts free speech, Howard Dean continues to lower the bar for political discourse in this country. The question for Democrats is, do they stand beside their party chairman and his latest wild-eyed attack?

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

The historical irony is that a step that is basically within the discourse of the left is being carried out by a right-wing leader. It is as significant as Richard Nixon going to China.

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

As a navel-gazing exercise, I guess that?s very interesting, but as an editorial decision, I think it?s terribly irresponsible. It seems to be a rather calculated effort not to advance any discourse on the events of the day but merely to provoke.

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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if you mean to please,To press your point with modesty and ease.

These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.