Spokes Quotes
629 Spokes quotes by 494 unique authors
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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere…
— Bernadette Devlin
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Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then…
— Colleen Houck
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When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a…
— Luther Standing Bear
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In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the…
— George Washington
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Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where…
— Patti Davis
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The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."
— Harriet Doerr
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My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because…
— Marilyn Monroe
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True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and…
— Unknown Author
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man…
— Rudolf Steiner
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to…
— David Abram
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But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then…
— Ambrose
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I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this…
— Michael King
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I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.
— El Anatsui
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I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was…
— Kate Simon
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If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.
— T. B. Joshua
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Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' -…
— Henri Nouwen
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I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that.…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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