Utterance Quotes
128 quotes by 109 authors
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The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism,
— Jonathan Lethem
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it,…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the…
— Gautama Buddha
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When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine…
— Hans Hinrich Wendt
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All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.
— Henry Abbey
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the…
— A.J. Ayer
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth…
— John Calvin
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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body…
— Marshall McLuhan
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You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance…
— Luce Irigaray
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Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire…
— Ben Marcus
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Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time....
— Philip the Apostle
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As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.
— Elias Lyman Magoon
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I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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