Quotes 61 till 80 of 234.
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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
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I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out.
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I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
Expecting Rain, Rome Interview -
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
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