Best Tongues Quotes
248 Tongues quotes by 189 unique authors
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Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying…
— Valentina Tereshkova
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Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know…
— Samuel Rutherford
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The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of…
— Unknown Author
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Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put…
— Mario Pei
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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual…
— Erica Jong
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What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
— Leonard Ravenhill
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True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.
— Edward Dyer
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For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
— Sophocles
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
— Anna Akhmatova
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous…
— Ward Churchill
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I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned…
— Edvard Munch
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It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our…
— John Flavel
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Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.
— Richard Crashaw
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But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talkā¦
— Keri Hulme
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If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own…
— John Wanamaker
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Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we…
— Unknown Author
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.
— Ten Bears
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Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
— Arthur E Waite
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I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's…
— Walter Mosley
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We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our…
— Hannah More
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We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets…
— Helene Cixous
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