One Hears Quotes
52 quotes by 47 authors
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In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory.…
— Rohinton Mistry
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In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is.…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite…
— David Hilbert
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the…
— R. Kelly
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Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing…
— Augustus William Hare
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Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is…
— Isabel Paterson
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Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for…
— Steven Weinberg
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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears…
— Jane Austen
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Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if…
— Ray Bradbury
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Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into…
— John Burroughs
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What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age…
— Tony Kushner
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Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one…
— Muriel Barbery
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of…
— John Cheever
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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and…
— Franz Kafka
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There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We…
— Oliver Sacks
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Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how,…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the…
— Michael Specter
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The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
— David Novak
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