“Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.” IfsMenSelfSpeakRaceSawsHappenedEarsInstitutionsDeceptionConfusedNonsenseFabricOffendedSelf DeceptionUntruthIdiomPresumptuousVacuousPasserby Author:Thomas Szasz
“I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"” WantTryingWellsPersonsSaidRememberSpeakJusticeHappenedLandPleaseTreatsAliensReasonablePalestinianSettlementDiplomaticWhere You ComeYahwehJewish Friends Author:Desmond Tutu
“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.” KnowsYearsAbleAmericaPastTimeFallSpeakLanguageHoursHappenedCenturyEventsFlowerSpeechOrdinaryChinaAcceptedRelatedPassagesScholarLeafsGrammarIncidentsTenseDynastyImmediacy Author:Nora Waln
“I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.” KnowsWellsI CanReasonShowsHappensFilmSpeakFeltMusicHappenedMusic IsDiedCamerasDamnFedsFed UpBrian Author:John Lennon
“You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.” IfsCountrySpeakNationsLevelsHappenedHatredFortuneDisappearNationalismMisfortunesLowestInternationalismDisappear Completely Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.” WayNeedsLostLeftSpeakHappenedCriticismValuableJournalismPostsJournalistComedianGutsVacuumsSpineSpeak The TruthSupplementsTransplantsGood Journalism Author:Dan Rather
“I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.” ThinkingNeedsKidsSpeakParentHappenedStageGoes OnProfoundPsychologicalDeficit Author:W. Kamau Bell
“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.” WayWantWellsChildrenI CanSpeakFeltGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingHappenedPossibilityTerribleDifficultyMy Children Author:Lukas Moodysson
“Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.” KnowsWayDifferentSometimesSpeakVoiceInterestingHappenedStyleMinesQuietExcitingAffairLovelyCabinetsPersonal StyleForeign AffairsQuiet Voice Author:Margaret Thatcher
“It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.” IfsHappensSpeakHappenedGreatnessDistanceYesterdayGrainImmense Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.” IfsThinkingLooksHappensCertainSpeakEasyProcessSoundVoiceChurchHappenedMissingMinesPatternsCaughtOfficialsThemeCaught UpSignals Author:Frederick Buechner
“Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.” SpeakReligiousRightsHappenedGroupsBrotherRevolutionGainsBacklash Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.” PeopleIfsHas BeensBookSpeakHappenedJourneyFansParticularAppreciateUniversalRelateHardshipOpen Book Author:Kevin Hart
“This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.” WorldFeelsStatesAgeSpeakUnitedUnited StatesOur LivesHappenedMediaTelevisionElementsScaryErasPrivacyJustifyDissentSpeaks OutNew EraPeeling Author:Sandra Cisneros
“But to your point - you also raise a point, too, that it's not that, like, a bromance is necessarily a new thing. It's happened a lot in sort of big budget comedies in the past decade or so. But people have pointed out to us that we're doing a bromance, so to speak, but doing it in a different way that's even more authentic and real and sincere.” PeopleWayDifferentRealBigsPastSpeakComedyHappenedRaisesDecadesBudgetsDifferent WaysSincereNew ThingsBromance Author:Steve Zissis