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If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. — Jean-Francois Cope
The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in… — William Carlos Williams
Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they… — Sharon Creech
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply. — William Butler Yeats
If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but… — Ibn Ata Allah
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the… — William Shakespeare
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too… — Jean de La Fontaine
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope. — John Milton
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress… — William Allen White
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of… — George Crabbe
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with… — Zoroaster
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their… — William Morris Hunt
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. — Mike Brearley
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be… — Luc de Clapiers
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the… — John Muir
If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I… — Epictetus
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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