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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.


Benjamin Whichcote

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could be more receptive than facts that s...
TOBA BETA The wise man reveals more than words spoken.
TOBA BETA Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; ...
JONATHAN COLEMAN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY when we work together, we achieve more. Character is not a concept that is simply spoken about, but ...
JOSE A. AVILES I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage tha...
MARKUS ZUSAK No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on ...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted...
STEVE MARABOLI Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just...
SPOKEN REASONS A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe ...
MARKUS ZUSAK It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
M.I.A. A tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken.
UNKNOWN Believe no man more than yourself when you are spoken of.
VIKRANT PARSAI Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken abou...
KEVIN WHATELY Nothing is taken at face value anymore, everything must be dissected. Perhaps it is the rise of adve...
JAMES ROZOFF Judgments based off trivialities often say more about the speaker than the subject spoken of.
CHARLES M FORD II Wise man can make people hear
more lessons than words spoken.
TOBA BETA probably have second- and third-generation Latinos who are exposed more to English, but at Heritage,...
CERVANTES As I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I ...
HELEN KELLER Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE 'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intell...
MARIA MONTESSORI I've never spoken to any of them,
JANIS KARPINSKI Your shareholders have spoken,
DANIEL LOEB I believe that she more consistently than anyone else, has spoken to the issues that are the concern...
DONALD BUCHANAN Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all infidelity that has ever been sp...
GEORGE MACDONALD Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe...
TIMOTHY NOAH On a Sunday, you can be in the lobby and hear more Spanish being spoken than English.
MICHAEL MILLS Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
VOLTAIRE Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of
HEBREW PROVERB Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever...
GEORGE MACDONALD To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five mor...
J.K. ROWLING It's disappointing, but the people have spoken,
GEORGE SHARP When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip...
ETGAR KERET I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I'd spoken to them and they'd agreed it wasn't my debt over the phone, but weeks later I'm getting a...
MALCOLM CAMPBELL The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
JOYCE MAYNARD The two Testaments are the two lips by which God hath spoken to us.
THOMAS WATSON The top guys have spoken. It's not a main table meeting, but progress is being made.
EDD SNYDER The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate....
JUDY BURKETT Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas.
W. H. AUDEN Let nothing which is disgraceful to be spoken of, or to be seen, approach this place where a child i...
JUVENAL I have already spoken to him about Bayern.
ROY MAKAAY Before you die people will label you many things, and not everyone will have something nice to say.N...
TANICA S HALL Every resident I've spoken to is against it.
JIM CLARK I don't know how much we've even spoken to our label about this, but we're going to try and go into ...
PETE WENTZ Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a par...
LEONARD MLODINOW Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be ...
JAMES MILL Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB Many a true word is spoken in jest.
ENGLISH PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
GREEK PROVERB Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
SIMONIDES A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
UNKNOWN Many a true word is spoken in jest
ENGLISH PROVERB God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
ROB BELL The people have spoken,
THABO MBEKI Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.
ANGELA AHRENDTS The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.
A.E. SAMAAN Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apolo...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En...
LAFCADIO HEARN Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.
JENNIFER NETTLES Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daug...
ANN BRASHARES For me, the person whose thoughts are still spoken is never dead.
VIKRANT PARSAI There is a weird power in a spoken word.
JOSEPH CONRAD because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
ROB BELL The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew ...
CHARLES PERRAULT Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
NANCY DUARTE These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unt...
BIBLE There is only one universal language; the language spoken by the heart…love.
DR NIRVADHA SINGH I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorab...
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
LA'PORSHA RENAE Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die
AFRICAN PROVERB The spoken word cannot be recalled but the written word leaves evidence.
QUINN STILLETTO "Kindness is a language in which words need not be spoken, caring acts can be felt and understood by...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN My sister was on me really bad yesterday (to shoot more). The queen had spoken, so I had to come in ...
ERIC SNOW Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less.
RONALD ANTON The more you know, the less you need.
YVON CHOUINARD Spoken words evaporated into the air just as easily as burned letters, but the sound of them seemed ...
LAURA MONCUR I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
BEBE REXHA Martin Crowe McCullum and Clarke have already spoken but Chapell is sitting tight? Chapell is it a f...
APURVA GAGLANI Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.
J.K. ROWLING Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
TERRY PRATCHETT I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I think too much is spoken of playing things slowly.
JAMES GALWAY A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
BIBLE The people I've spoken told me they learned a lot more than they ever knew previously. They understa...
JAY LABONTE A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
NALINI SINGH I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.
ANKITA SINGHAL If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back
CHINESE PROVERBS The game is now universal. Twenty-five years ago it was only for two continents, now it is universal...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI