Uttered Quotes

189 quotes by 162 authors

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. — Plutarch
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The moment youâ€™ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, youâ€™re already turning towards home. — David Whyte
The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. — Edgar Allan Poe
When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides,… — James Joyce
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and… — Gilbert Highet
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
He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge… — Maximus the Confessor
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat… — Pope Pius XII
Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It… — George Mikes
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home. — Julie Andrews
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an… — Caroline Knapp
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great… — Sigmund Freud
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw
If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail. — Ted Nugent
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in… — Wyndham Lewis
How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by… — John of Kronstadt
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of… — Joseph Addison
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead

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