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
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
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
I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person.… — Billy Collins 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
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of… — William James Copy Share Image
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. — Henry Williamson 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
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is… — George W Truett 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
The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension,… — Luce Irigaray 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
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within,… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. — Chanakya Copy Share Image