Top 1200 Verbal Abuse Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

I had to get back to work... NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

In the film industry, we work more on the basis of good faith and verbal commitments rather than legalities.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?

If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.

I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.

I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Facebook, instagram - I prefer visual communication better than verbal. But I read all the comments, answering too.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

The Trump administration gives me so many more opportunities to be verbal and vocal.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.