| "Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering |
| "Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one." »Scottish Proverb |
| "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." »Orson Scott Card |
| "Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine |
| "When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." »H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| "Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." »Ernest J. Gaines |
| "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." »Saint Augustine |
| "Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least." »Jane Welsh Carlyle |
| "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener |
| "The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken" »Sir Walter Scott |
| "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." »George Burton Adams |
| "Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God." »Jean Valjean |
| "Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies." »Edgar Watson Howe |
| "Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee." »The Dhammapada |
| "Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind." »Florence Nightingale |
| "I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
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