Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

This birthday verse is little and I want you to know and see, that you're someone very special especially to me. — Susan Smith
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class. — Julie B. Beck
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to… — Conor Oberst
There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse,… — Kurt Cobain
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for… — Philip Pullman
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. — Russell Baker
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book… — William Jennings Bryan
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your… — Drake
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. — Gautama Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better… — Gautama Buddha
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that.… — Unknown Author
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! — Margarita Engle
Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be… — Margarita Engle
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore… — Unknown Author
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question. — Adam Kirsch
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the… — Joanna Newsom
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. — Louise Bogan
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in… — Adam Clarke

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