Spoke Quotes
808 quotes by 624 authors
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's…
— Ashley Rickards
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.
— Arne Glimcher
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager,…
— Thomas Boswell
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made…
— Thomas A. Edison
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In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians,…
— James Weldon Johnson
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'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little…
— Lewis Carroll
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Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . .…
— Callimachus
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God spoke to me.†Don't let the voice of the darkness, tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you.…
— Louie Giglio
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In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you…
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.
— Helen Hunt
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became…
— Robert Muller
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While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas…
— Paul Scott
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I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never…
— Albert Maltz
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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and…
— William Blake
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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