Spokes Quotes
629 Spokes quotes by 494 unique authors
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players…
— William Shakespeare
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.
— Earl Weaver
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and…
— George Orwell
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The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all…
— Charles Perrault
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Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
— Richard Saul Wurman
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Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.
— Louis Riel
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We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by…
— Ernest Lawrence
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Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
— John Abizaid
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The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as…
— Darrell Bock
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Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was…
— Leonard Shlain
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Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).
— Adrian Rogers
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If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who…
— Will Schwalbe
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If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as…
— Alice Bag
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And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in…
— John Steinbeck
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When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with…
— Henry Blackaby
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We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We…
— Laozi
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Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
— Jonathan King
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Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each…
— Susanna Clarke
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the…
— Michelle Hunziker
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The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society…
— Barack Obama
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence…
— W. Averell Harriman
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I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion,…
— Nelson Mandela
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He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
— Lord Chesterfield
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