Murmuring Quotes
75 quotes by 69 authors
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I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to…
— Susan Orlean
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of…
— Paul Tillich
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!…
— Kate Chopin
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Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.
— SaigyÅ
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
— Nikolai Gogol
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to…
— Robert Frost
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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
— Kate Chopin
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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein…
— Michael Chabon
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...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who…
— Marcus Luttrell
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long…
— William Faulkner
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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
— Confucius
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There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition…
— Daniel Defoe
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Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders curving around her as if he could draw…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain.…
— Juan Rulfo
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,…
— Baroness Orczy
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Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only…
— Isaac Asimov
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Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door…
— Lynsay Sands
Who Wrote These Murmuring Quotes
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