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Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE… — William Shakespeare
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it.… — Peter Cameron
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured. — Thomas S. Monson
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. — Leo Tolstoy
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… — Denis Johnson
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father,… — P.D. James
Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has… — Thomas Merton
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part… — Joanne Harris
The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting… — Barack Obama
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken… — Alice Hoffman
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. — Rob Bell
I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life. — Anthony Horowitz
When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech… — John Steinbeck
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome… — Helen Keller
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — Walter Savage Landor
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. — Kate DiCamillo
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths. — Tristan Tzara
Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land… — Unknown Author
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.… — Italo Calvino
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word… — Steve Martin
On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate. — David Clement-Davies

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