Utter Quotes
526 quotes by 447 authors
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I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather…
— Michel Onfray
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that…
— Mitt Romney
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The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human…
— Mitt Romney
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous…
— Salman Rushdie
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
— John Steinbeck
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we…
— William Wordsworth
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Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the…
— Etty Hillesum
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...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It…
— Joseph Brodsky
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let…
— Woody Allen
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THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world…
— Luigi Pirandello
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
— Franz Kafka
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,…
— Marquis de Sade
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked…
— John Steinbeck
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Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot…
— C.S. Lewis
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When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?
— Eckhart Tolle
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If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and…
— Terry Pratchett
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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
— C.S. Lewis
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