Uttered Quotes
189 quotes by 164 authors
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— Saint Augustine
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our…
— Ole Hallesby
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your…
— Ole Hallesby
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What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
— Saint John Chrysostom
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When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for…
— John Climacus
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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be…
— Bruce Barton
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some…
— Plutarch
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Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come in contact with…
— Rajneesh
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Some of the comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of most Americans. Islam,…
— George W. Bush
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When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until…
— Lewis Black
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The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the…
— Ole Hallesby
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Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered…
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And…
— William Shatner
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all…
— Tryon Edwards
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To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of…
— David Foster Wallace
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