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1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in… — Alfred Korzybski
Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile… — Ezra Taft Benson
It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash… — Winston Churchill
The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word… — Benedict Groeschel
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo
His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he… — Stephenie Meyer
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is… — Charles Dickens
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the… — Amitav Ghosh
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to… — Vincent de Paul
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should… — Colm Toibin
Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as… — Gordon B. Hinckley
For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is… — Myles Munroe
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words… — Martha Graham
Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken — John Mulaney
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men,… — Hippocrates
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,… — Andy Warhol
I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to… — C.S. Lewis
So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I… — Mark Driscoll
Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world. — Gertrud von Le Fort
I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke… — Harry Markopolos
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being… — Verghese Kurien
Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in… — George Eldon Ladd
When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he… — Cleanth Brooks

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