Uttered Quotes
189 quotes by 162 authors
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Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
— Charles Spurgeon
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All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so…
— Louise Erdrich
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How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
— Christopher Buckley
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came…
— Khalil Gibran
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Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs…
— Rick Moody
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Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand…
— Elie Wiesel
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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now,…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could…
— Anais Nin
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
— Orson Scott Card
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
— Mario Puzo
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Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic…
— Georgette Heyer
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How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have…
— Ramakrishna
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...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness…
— Leon Trotsky
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not…
— Richard Wright
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