Our Tongues Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare
We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created,… — Robin Williams
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our… — John Flavel
If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own… — John Wanamaker
Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we… — Connie Foster
I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's… — Walter Mosley
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our… — Hannah More
It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues… — Hannah Kent
We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful… — Peter Damian
We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were… — Charles Spurgeon
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,… — Sam Harris
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould… — Virginia Woolf
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash. — Neal A. Maxwell
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the… — Hermann Hesse
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our… — Jodi Picoult
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues. — Naomi Shihab Nye
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and… — William Shakespeare
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues... — Brendan Behan
Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris. — Jandy Nelson

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