Uttered Quotes

189 quotes by 162 authors

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? — Christopher Buckley
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
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
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
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
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
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. — Orson Scott Card
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
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
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
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
The fragility of love is what is most at stake hereâ€”humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or… — Christopher Hitchens
What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world â€” the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy â€” have… — Ramakrishna
...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
Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother. — Elizabeth Hoyt
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the â€œsacredness… — Leon Trotsky
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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