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1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall
I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on. — Billy Graham
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. — Rodney Dangerfield
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. — Charles Dickens
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. — Epictetus
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could… — Louis Farrakhan
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. — Henry Fielding
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm… — Gustave Flaubert
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to… — Gerald R. Ford
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not… — Sammy Hagar
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. — Augustus Hare
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the… — Sam Harris
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress… — Adolf Hitler
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. — E. W. Howe
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just… — Henrik Ibsen
Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and… — Jay-Z
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can… — Jeffrey Kluger
My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things,… — Queen Latifah
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at… — Audre Lorde
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. — Mercedes McCambridge
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a… — Marshall McLuhan
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book. — Dylan Moran

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