Clamors Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have…
— John Flavel
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who…
— Robert C. Murphy
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
— James Madison
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The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to…
— James F. Byrnes
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To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and…
— Robert C. Murphy
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It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious…
— Alexander Crummell
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Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom…
— Hal Hellman
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The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and…
— Edwin Markham
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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious…
— Alexander Hamilton
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And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only…
— Jeanette Winterson
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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be…
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Clamors Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Clamors Quotes as follows: