Uttering Quotes
44 Uttering quotes by 42 unique authors
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.
— Donald Sterling
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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
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The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
— Werner Heisenberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
— Walt Whitman
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Uttering Quotes
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