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1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. — Ted Chiang
If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone… — Ally Carter
Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your… — Immaculee Ilibagiza
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be… — Neil Gaiman
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. — J.R.R. Tolkien
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we… — Lewis B. Smedes
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such… — Aristotle
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd,… — Henry David Thoreau
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice… — Joyce Carol Oates
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -… — Mark Twain
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not… — Nirmala Srivastava
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of the… — Marcus Borg
The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts… — Marianne Williamson
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is. — Nancy Duarte
Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in… — Emily Oster
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by… — Karisma Kapoor
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to… — Tracy Letts
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He… — Delmore Schwartz
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap. — M.I.A.
It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has… — Dan Kaminsky
I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with… — Carine Roitfeld
If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak. — Jessica Hart

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