Tongues Quotes · Page 4

“For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart.”

— Regina O'Melveny

“Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said. "Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues.”

— Neal Shusterman

Guard your tongues because when you talk about another negatively you are defining yourself. Stand up for each other.

— Anonymous

“an Evolution strange two Tongues touch exchange a Feast unknown to stone or tree or beast”

— May Swenson

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

— Meg Cabot

“Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If only our tongues were made of glass how much more carefull we would be when we speak

— Real Hair

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

— Wes Fesler

“IV Yes, I have a thousand tongues, And nine and nighty-nine lie. Though I strive to use the one, It will make…

— Stephen Crane

“Our tongues aren’t interested in what’s right or wrong or fucking irresponsible. Our tongues just want to fuck each other.”

— K. Webster

In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel…

— Michael O'Keefe

We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be…

— Doug Collins

“She was speaking in tongues?" "What da f**k else she gonna speak with?" Veda rolled her eyes. I saw no reason to…

— Sierra Dean

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little.…

— Toni Morrison

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because…

— George Eliot

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the…

— Lucretius

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.…

— Baruch Spinoza

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent…

— William Shakespeare

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their…

— Torquato Tasso

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or…

— Bible

“We all nourish truth with our tongues not in sour-batter words that never take shape nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the…

— Dorothy Allison

“If the Apostle justly prohibits the use of unknown tongues in the church, much less would he have tolerated these artificial musical…

— Theodore Beza

“The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the…

— George Steiner

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to…

— Anonymous

I only say I love you when I mean it just like I only speak in tongues when Im heated.

— Anonymous

“Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

— William Shakespeare

“It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.”

— Lauren Beukes

“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak.

— Shaun Shane

When the Holy Spirit speaks to us in unknown tongues, upon interpretation we find a prophecy

— Wilson Khashane Msendevu

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

— Dante Alighieri

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdombetter none:

— William Wordsworth

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

— Joseph Hall

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

— John Milton

“Foolish tongues will always wag, ma’am, but people of goodwill ignore them.”

— Jennifer Paynter

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

— Fanny Fern

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.

— Theognis of Megara

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

— Baruch Spinoza