Utter Quotes

526 quotes by 447 authors

The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender… — Lilias Trotter
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not… — George Eliot
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest… — William James
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. — Plutarch
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. — Abraham Lincoln
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this… — Seneca the Younger
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment. — William Feather
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… — Raymond Chandler
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think… — John Steinbeck
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire. — Hafez
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. — Richard J. Needham
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another… — Bob Newhart
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please. — John Ray
If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those… — Maximus the Confessor
People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense. — Bernard Marcus
We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed. — Rowan Williams

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