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Quotes About Uttered

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast.
~ James Montgomery
Why?' said Philippa. 'For suffering what you have suffered for three months?' And felt the veils rend about her, for she had broken the unwritten law: it must not be uttered. It must not be uttered, or they could not bear the pain, mirrored over and over.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.
~ John Keats
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
~ Emily Dickinson
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
~ Howard Zinn
So this intense desire uttered itself in the dromenon of his resurrection.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
The word God has become a closed concept. The moment the word is uttered, a mental image is created, no longer, perhaps, of an old man with a white beard, but still a mental representation of someone or something outside you, and, yes, almost inevitably a male someone or something.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I'm tired, she uttered complainingly. I know you are. You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.
~ Kate Chopin
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
~ Ole Hallesby
These words were utter'd in a pensive mood,   Even while mine eyes were on that solemn sight:
~ William Wordsworth
People say it far too much, 'I'll be eternally grateful' is one of the most vacuous statements ever uttered and yet one hears it often, always with that unvarying epithet, always that same irresponsible 'eternally', another clue to its absolute lack of reality, or truth or meaning
~ Javier Marías
Ba'alzamon. In the Trolloc tongue, it meant Heart of the Dark, and even unbelievers knew it was the Trolloc name for the Great Lord of the Dark. He Whose Name Must Not Be Uttered. Not the True Name, Shai'tan, but still forbidden.
~ Robert Jordan
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
~ Dita Von Teese
I must make a plan," he murmured aloud.
~ Liam O'Flaherty
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.
~ Sinead O'Connor
there is always a very precise moment for words like that to be uttered; then it passes and it is too late. Just as the moment for words like sorry or I love you is a brief one, fleeting and irreplaceable; a moment of liminality, perhaps.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
some running in terror from the whip of subtle simalarity between the madwomens utterd thoughts and their own unuttered ones
~ Joanne Greenberg
What is uttered is finished and done with.
~ Thomas Mann
If people would only do me justice that is all I ask, but it seems as if every word I have uttered has been distorted and such a false construction placed on it that I am bewildered. I can't understand it. —Lizzie Borden
~ Sarah Miller
I'm terribly sorry, but I really don't see how I can help you.' It was the sort of line that if uttered in a play by J. B. Priestley would lead to the host getting up to heave on the bell-pull prior to the butler showing the detective his way out and his place in society.
~ John Lawton
Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them.
~ Kurt Sutter
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
~ Salman Rushdie
By all means. The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There was nothing romantic about Miss Charing's appearance, but her entrance would not have shamed a Siddons. You, she uttered in accents of loathing. I might have known it!
~ Georgette Heyer