Spoken Quotes
1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If…
— Anthony Mary Claret
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed…
— George Matthew Adams
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The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities…
— Albert Einstein
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To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
— Unknown Author
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
— William Shakespeare
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true…
— Annie Dillard
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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted…
— John Bunyan
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My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to…
— Ani DiFranco
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Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at…
— Paul Zollo
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Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for…
— Whitley Strieber
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Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken.…
— Jon Stewart
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Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving…
— Namkhai Norbu
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Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let…
— Eugene Mirman
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Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are…
— Dianna Agron
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word…
— Djuna Barnes
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The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.
— William J. Clinton
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It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.
— Amy Poehler
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