Uttering Quotes

44 Uttering quotes by 42 unique authors

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of… — Erma Bombeck
Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would… — Watchman Nee
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
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense… — Jacques Barzun
I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words. — Donald Sterling
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. — Werner Heisenberg
I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite… — Peter O'Toole
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials… — Conrad Black
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than… — Antonin Artaud
Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away… — Richard Rodriguez
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We must remember that the GOAL of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained, the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of… — Charles Spurgeon
One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate — Kazuo Ishiguro
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My… — Laurence Sterne
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by… — Heraclitus
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
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth… — Judith Martin
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a… — Erik Erikson
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a… — Steven Pinker
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. — Walt Whitman
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it.… — Peter Cameron
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers… — E E Cummings

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