The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the… — Hans Hinrich Wendt Copy Share Image
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Life is built on our daily utterances. Never declare any wickedness of some sort upon your life, words create a reality.” — Kabelo Mabona Copy Share Image
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'm not going to critique the president's every utterance, but I do think America is exceptional. America is different. We don't operate… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
