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1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself. — Paul Weyrich
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to… — Kevin Whately
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. — Sam Levenson
It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.… — Wendell Berry
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor… — Abraham Lincoln
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese. — Patrick O'Brian
Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under… — Pablo Neruda
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate… — William Shakespeare
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just… — Nicole Krauss
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself… — Gertrude Stein
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made… — Audre Lorde
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced… — Paul Rudnick
The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and… — Kaye Gibbons
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that… — A. S. Byatt
Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream. — Jane Austen
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry Pratchett
God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there. — Ted Dekker
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether… — Jane Roberts
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth… — Thomas Wolfe
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are… — William Butler Yeats
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth… — William Shakespeare

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