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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped,… — Harper Lee
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those… — Isaac Asimov
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of… — H P Lovecraft
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly… — Ian Mcewan
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which… — Aleister Crowley
I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.-… — Markus Zusak
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded.… — J M Coetzee
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes. — Jose Saramago
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) — Ann Brashares
Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die. — Lloyd Jones
Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look."… — Patrick Rothfuss
A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into… — Larry Crabb
I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder… — Cornelia Funke
The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man… — Stephen King
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did… — Victor Hugo
Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great… — Lewis Carroll
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. — Tennessee Williams
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth… — Anne Lamott
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants… — Audre Lorde
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to… — Sue Monk Kidd

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