Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Utterance of a negative tongue, will never promote a truthful mind. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations.… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists'… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the… — David Abram Copy Share Image
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect… — John Searle Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
“Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means… — Louis B. Saloman Copy Share Image
To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that… — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and… — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image