#discourse

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#discourse #fancy #full #glorious #having

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack obama #captive #discourse #entered #fevers

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#dismay #expressed #healthcare #informed #initiative

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#discourse #fools #weather

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. ↗

— John Locke

#discourses #frequently #learned #men #more

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#civil #discourse #everybody #i #i think

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

— Saint Francis de Sales

#discourse #good #into #nothing #quick

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there and learn of his nature, his obligations, and his end. ↗

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

#beauty