Ear Quotes

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The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's… — Edward McKendree Bounds
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend. — Thomas Hood
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear. — Mark Twain
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take… — Wendy O. Williams
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move… — Simone Weil
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden
I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire! — Bobby Hull
When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass… — Thomas Carlyle
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way… — Ajahn Chah
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. — William Shakespeare
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of… — Wallace Stevens
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which… — Ernest Holmes

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