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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. Ferdinand de Saussure

Communication Words First Relation Relations Independent Kind Spoken Within Subject Which Based Speech

When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person. Frances Hesselbein

Eyes People Words Focus Looking Carefully Our Focusing Directly Attention Spoken Unspoken Messages Very Person Forget Listen Just Them Require Means Speaking Moment Connected Watch

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. Frederick William Robertson

Work God Failure World Word Made Sacrifice Vain Earnest Earnestly Those No Work Spoken Freely Truly Done Who Ever

For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease. George Packer

Silence Conversation Mother Father Sister Pain Back Ease Entered Embarrassment Stayed More Seldom Had He Disappeared Spoken Come Until Felt Years Up Happened Which Room

Sometimes, the players who are not spoken about a lot, they grow and get better - with silence. Gerard Deulofeu

Silence Better Sometimes About Spoken Lot Get Who Grow Players

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. Gordon B. Hinckley

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London. Graham Swift

Respond London Spoken Sound Being

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. 'You're dangerous!' 'Deceived.' 'A false prophet.' 'A compromiser!' Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me. Hugh Ross

Me You People Words Dangerous Deceived Charges More Both Prophet Leaders Spoken Crush Implied Like Most Sticks Advocate False Discredit Than Intended Stones May Break Including Damage Imagine Bones

There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground. Ilan Stavans

Internet Thanks Television Finding Restaurants Classrooms Spoken Cuban Mexican Miami American Middle Different Happening Middle Ground Ground Radio Streets

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. Jack Kent Cooke

Say Indian Objection Spoken Chiefs Whatsoever Who Many Nickname

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone. James Fenton

My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person's medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day. Jamie Anderson

German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it. Janeane Garofalo

When I was a kid, my parents told me that every time we went to see a play or musical, I would sit there with my mouth hanging open completely immersed. I think it has just always spoken to me, been the thing that makes me feel alive, seen, and the way I can express myself. Jessica Rothe

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Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word. Jill Scott

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here. John Bachman

I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra. John Cho

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