Afonso Van-Dunem quotes

“Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.”
-- Afonso Van-Dunem

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“The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.”

“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.”

“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”

“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”

“I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.”

Source : "Lanark: A Life in Four Books". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1981.

“For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.”

“The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls”

“Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.”

Source : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

“When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad...”

“Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.”