#uttering

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. ↗

— Dick Morris

#agenda #american #american politics #animate #disarm

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#most #new #new word #people #step

No, no, no, Landemere. This time I'm putting my foot down. I mean it. Don't think you're going to smear syrup on my beard, as we say in Ramaldah. You're not making me change my mind by sweet talking me. I know your tricks, and I won't fall for them. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#no #sayings-in-ramaldah #sweet-talking #talking-tricks #change

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#each #happy #other #single #single word

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#hated #historical #i #novels

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#first #fluttering #holier #life #love

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be. ↗

— John Stossel

#fear #i #learned #never #one thing

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#seduction #seduction