Spoke Quotes
808 Spoke quotes by 624 unique authors
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism,…
— Hugo Chavez
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Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves…
— Venerable Bede
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Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough…
— Melina Marchetta
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We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
— Julius Nyerere
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I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came…
— Sharad Pawar
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The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.
— Gautama Buddha
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still…
— Plato
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Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the…
— Unknown Author
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.…
— Christopher Cokinos
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Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came…
— Dave Eggers
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America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only…
— John Quincy Adams
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When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I think Barry Bonds was in a unique situation given his injuries from a year ago, the fact that he played in just 14 games.…
— Unknown Author
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There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in contact with all…
— Grant Teaff
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Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious…
— Bruno Walter
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But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well…
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown…
— Giorgos Seferis
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And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror…
— Vasily Grossman
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In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing…
— Tim Pawlenty
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Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. ... Nothing…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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