Quotes of: Dialectic Keyword

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

Seth MacFarlane

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.

Russian

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

Revolution of the Dialectic: Esoteric Psychology and Meditation

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Archie Panjabi

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

Andrew Scott

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Audra McDonald

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.

Audra McDonald

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

The Revolution of the Dialectic: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Psychology and Meditation

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the i...

John McWhorter

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Christopher Hitchens

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mas...

Thomas Babington Macaulay

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North Amer...

William Labov

...the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation

The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

Palestinians and Israelis were connected by a fatalistic dialectic, whose movement was punctuated by violence and directed towards an apocalyptic conclusion. One might argue that this dialectic enveloped a land, mythical and actual, spiritual yet ear...

Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story