#speaking

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#come #each #even #languages #other

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#justice #laws #only #original #over

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#attention #because #conditions #employment #men

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#been #business #care #child #country

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

#citizens #had #individuals #instead #life

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

#first #great #great man #hesitation #his

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#between #cell #cell phone #chattering #difference

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#bush #does #fine #front #groups

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#expense #favor #mode #nature #speaking

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#father #him #i #i think #judge