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I think I should have more patience, i think it's pretty equal opportunity. I was annoyed with a male reporter this morning. I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper. – Ron Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it's pretty equal opportunity. I was annoyed with a male reporter this morning. I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper. – Ron Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think I should have some more patience, but I think I'm pretty equal opportunity, i will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
She's one of the only giraffes at the Dallas Zoo who can stick her long tongue out on cue. – Animal Planet	Found on CNN 9 years ago
She's one of the only giraffes at the Dallas Zoo who can stick her long tongue out on cue! – Animal Planet	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I came to China thinking I could learn Chinese and get a high paying job. I learned very quickly that was not the case, a lot of Chinese can speak English just as well as I can, and Chinese is their native tongue too. – Ian Weissgerber	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The kids take it tongue in cheek. They understand, because it's sort of a tradition around here, we go back and forth. But it's all in good fun. – Mark Boughton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A slip of the tongue is not the fault of the mind a kick on the arse will bring back the mind – Rajan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
He was seen as a handsome, charismatic, open and energetic man. An artistic orator with a biting tongue ... And of course Boris will be missed like spice, which in small doses can give a rich taste. – Boris Nemtsov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are living in the most glorious years of democracy in Egypt, and may the tongue of the person who does not agree with that be cut off. – Bassem Youssef	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If that piece of membrane is placed on an unusual spot on the infant’s tongue, it may restrict the movement of the tongue. – Irene Zoppi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It’s the tongue that does most of the work holding onto the nipple and the breast. – Irene Zoppi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I have been saying sort of tongue in cheek and very seriously, institutional racism actually works better than this, this is incompetence. – Jason Johnson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. – Teresa of Ávila	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. – Rainer Maria Rilke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. – Jeremy Taylor	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. – Simone Weil	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it ,but it was under very surreptitious circumstances. – Lucy Alibar	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. – Peter Drucker	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I think I should have more patience, i think it's pretty equal opportunity. I was annoyed with a male reporter this morning. I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper.

– Ron Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think it's pretty equal opportunity. I was annoyed with a male reporter this morning. I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper.

– Ron Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think I should have some more patience, but I think I'm pretty equal opportunity, i will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I will have to get better at holding my tongue and holding my temper.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

She's one of the only giraffes at the Dallas Zoo who can stick her long tongue out on cue.

– Animal Planet

Found on CNN
9 years ago

She's one of the only giraffes at the Dallas Zoo who can stick her long tongue out on cue!

– Animal Planet

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I came to China thinking I could learn Chinese and get a high paying job. I learned very quickly that was not the case, a lot of Chinese can speak English just as well as I can, and Chinese is their native tongue too.

– Ian Weissgerber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The kids take it tongue in cheek. They understand, because it's sort of a tradition around here, we go back and forth. But it's all in good fun.

– Mark Boughton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A slip of the tongue is not the fault of the mind a kick on the arse will bring back the mind

– Rajan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

He was seen as a handsome, charismatic, open and energetic man. An artistic orator with a biting tongue ... And of course Boris will be missed like spice, which in small doses can give a rich taste.

– Boris Nemtsov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are living in the most glorious years of democracy in Egypt, and may the tongue of the person who does not agree with that be cut off.

– Bassem Youssef

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If that piece of membrane is placed on an unusual spot on the infant’s tongue, it may restrict the movement of the tongue.

– Irene Zoppi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It’s the tongue that does most of the work holding onto the nipple and the breast.

– Irene Zoppi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I have been saying sort of tongue in cheek and very seriously, institutional racism actually works better than this, this is incompetence.

– Jason Johnson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

– Teresa of Ávila

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

– Washington Irving