Spokes Quotes
629 Spokes quotes by 494 unique authors
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own…
— Khalil Gibran
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common…
— Oscar Wilde
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I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of…
— Shel Silverstein
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There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always…
— Nicholas Sparks
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a…
— Markus Zusak
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He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that…
— Richard Bach
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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to…
— John Steinbeck
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in…
— Evelyn Waugh
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly…
— Jane Austen
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I might have known,†said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last…
— A A Milne
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you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never…
— Cornelia Funke
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With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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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
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And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
— Philip Roth
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There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but…
— Stephen Kendrick
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Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah…
— Os Guinness
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And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books…
— Cornelia Funke
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