Unspeakable Quotes

156 quotes by 146 authors

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing… — Geraldine Brooks
The third always speaks the unspeakable words. — Tupac Shakur
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking.… — Victoria Alexander
To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable… — D. James Kennedy
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to counsel… — F. Burton Howard
All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British… — Ludwig von Mises
If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can… — John G. Lake
I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that… — John Kendrick Bangs
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock… — Carl Sandburg
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without… — Luigi Pirandello
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied… — George Eliot
There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness. — Stuart Briscoe
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to cry, and want… — Elliott Merrick
We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of… — William Kittredge
I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would… — Jean Chretien
Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift… — Michael Faraday
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets. — Chris Ware

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