| "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller |
| "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." »Abigail Adams |
| "There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it" »Albert Einstein |
| "When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." »John Wyndham |
| "Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer |
| "You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer |
| "History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." »James A. Forude |
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