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629 Spokes quotes by 494 unique authors

The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something… — Lawrence Kushner
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the… — Anthony de Mello
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They… — Mark Twain
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand. — E L Doctorow
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or… — Kiki Smith
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have… — Eamon de Valera
If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our… — Maximus the Confessor
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I… — Linda Lavin
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a… — William Manchester
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and… — Thomas Merton
Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help… — David Jeremiah
A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell… — Martin Buber
She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all. — Bob Hope
I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was… — Peter Medawar
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it… — Bonnie Bedelia
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which… — Bernard de Mandeville
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people… — Richard Dreyfuss
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was… — Robert Fitzgerald
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they… — Stephanie Beacham
My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was… — Jencarlos Canela

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