Spokes Quotes
629 Spokes quotes by 494 unique authors
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Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.
— Robert Hayden
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Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working…
— Robert Genn
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He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
— Matthew Arnold
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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
— Will Rogers
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The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to go there. Why?…
— Hartman Rector, Jr.
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Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became…
— Frederick Lenz
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When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That’s why they followed him.
— Pope Francis
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When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started…
— Boman Irani
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Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
— Bill Vaughan
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said,…
— Bill Vaughan
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From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that…
— David Greenberg
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It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest…
— Giovanna Cau
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The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told…
— Madonna Ciccone
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I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only…
— Jodie Foster
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Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that…
— Martha Gellhorn
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I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are…
— Penelope Cruz
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You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
— Junot Diaz
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
— Charles Dickens
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I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from…
— James Dobson
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
— Black Elk
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Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to…
— Michael Ende
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The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death,…
— Louis Farrakhan
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