They Spoke Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those… — Michel de Montaigne
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls… — Ernest Hello
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language… — Dominic Chianese
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
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
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
They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. — Paulo Coelho
In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a… — Douglas Wilson
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
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
And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You… — Charlize Theron
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
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
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
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
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone… — Ilona Andrews
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke… — Lloyd Alexander
As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu,… — Nicholas Sparks

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