A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde 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
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this… — W. H. Auden 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
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation -… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is… — J. I. Packer 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
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
“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance… — Lucy Larcom 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
The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
This is a marvel of the universe: To fling a thought across a stretch of sky-- Some weighty message, or a yearning… — Josephine Preston Peabody 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
Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American --… — Wallace Stevens 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
At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
