Quotes About Verbal

Partner psychological abuse encompasses nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by one partner that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant harm to the other partner.

Most professional beliefs, especially Christian religious beliefs, are taught through formal, usually verbal, instruction. Such formal instruction may be devoid of personal experience to match the verbal teaching. . . Just as the instruction is verbal, the learner's profession of the belief is verbal.

The correction of the "I mean," the "As a matter of fact" habit, takes cooperation. If you realize that you have picked up a verbal mannerism, call on the friend to whom you talk most fluently and emotionally. It is fairly easy to control such a mannerism in the presence of someone we hardly know, but in the heat of discourse the offending phrase will crop up in every other sentence.

You know, would simply use the word use, rather than utilize the word utilize.

When it comes to the history of ideas, it is relatively simple to show that religious toleration, which includes tolerating verbal expressions of ideas repugnant to you, is an idea that germinated in Christian soil. In Christian history, we see it as early as Lactantius (an early church father who tutored Constantine's kids), and it comes to full bloom in the American Bill of Rights. Letting other people express their errors without fear of reprisal is a distinctively Christian ideal.

At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn't there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.

That's the trouble with hiding in your safe place and hearing but not hearing a verbal hammering. You do hear the words, and with the right trigger, all your feelings come out as word vomit or lava— a hot projectile that can't be controlled at all.

High levels of female hormone seem to enhance coordination skills in women. From early on, girls are superior in tasks requiring rapid, skillful, fine movements as well as, of course, in everything requiring verbal fluency and articulation.

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

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

The augur could choose which birds to observe, or ignore a sign simply by saying, non consulto. Having made a verbal declaration (effatio) of the area or templum in his field of vision, he remained the master of his own inner convictions (Liv., 1, 18, 8: animo finivit).

Early in their lives they learned to distrust positive verbal expressions and even physical affection, because more often than not these feelings covertly expressed their parents' need and desperation.

When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve.

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I'll defend the freedom to express our thoughts – though not an absolute freedom to attack each other verbally.

Words are for word people. You are not a person of that type. Concern yourself only with deeds.

Sense such humiliation, combined with prohibiting a child's verbal expression, is a constant and universally encountered factor in child-rearing, the influence of this factor in the child's later development is easily overlooked.

an instinct for running his mouth when anyone else would know to shut up.

She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.

He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.