Utterance Quotes

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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct… — Ambrose Bierce
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost… — James Russell Lowell
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress… — William Allen White
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a… — Edward Ruscha
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious… — Alexander Crummell
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail… — Brigham Young
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely… — Jawaharlal Nehru
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of… — Saint Basil
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. — Rita Dove
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances,… — Clare Boothe Luce
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so… — Petrarch
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and… — George Edward Woodberry
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed… — Orson Scott Card
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury… — Lew Wallace
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine.… — Thomas Carlyle
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel… — Marilynne Robinson
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom… — Bill Bryson

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