Top 1200 Verbal Abuse Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .

One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'??t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'??t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

I'm not a very verbal person.

No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them.

Living in the rural South, you sometimes feel trapped, like you don't have any options. It grinds people down, and of course it leads to substance abuse. I see it all around me. So many people in my family, probably more than 50 percent, have had substance abuse problems, either currently or in the past. It's so personal and immediate to me.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

I love being verbal in films.

My mind gets into a verbal mode.

To keep the air fresh among words Is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that's physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

God doesn't need verbal language for communication.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do go on Twitter to abuse people. When that becomes clear then Twitter has a moral duty to shut those people down when they see that somebody is there solely for the purpose of abusing others. Yeah you have free speech, but what you don't have is the right to wield your speech like a cudgel to somebody who has done nothing to earn it.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.

There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love

I think in some cases, a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers. Then you get to fraud, waste and abuse, Sean. I mean, the fraud and the waste and the abuse, which everybody agrees if you can solve that problem, but it's, you know, mind-boggling the kind of numbers.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid.

Football is more verbal in Holland, but there is a different approach in England.

We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day by the impact of alcohol and drug abuse, and we should not, and we cannot, hide from that reality any longer. More and more of our students are demanding that they not be imposed upon by others whose judgment and behavior are impaired by substance abuse. It is time to take a stand.

Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.