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Quotes About Uttered

Oh, shit, ' said Jean.
~ Scott Lynch
She had ordered him out of her office, and had sat in incredulous horror before the fact that the most vicious statement she had ever heard had been uttered in a tone of moral righteousness.
~ Ayn Rand
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.
~ Hugo Black
He said to them, "Weird? This ain't weird." And then he uttered the phrase that one heard every night around the station when things seemed too surreal to be true: "Man, this is fucking Hollywood!" After that, there was usually no need for further comment.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly as it was uttered by Alan Rusbridger, that would transform the paper and the goal that everyone was working toward.
~ Michael Wolff
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
~ James Russell Lowell
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
~ Julie Andrews
What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life. Moreover, with wisdom we shall learn liberality.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Blessed is the man who has come to know that our muted thoughts are our sweetest thoughts. "Blessed is the man who, from the blackest depths, can see the luminous figure of LOVE, and seeing, sing; and singing, say: Sweeter far than uttered lays are the thoughts I have of you.
~ Napoleon Hill
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
~ Caleb Cushing
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
~ O. Hallesby
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
Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action.
~ Thiruman Archunan
Indeed, the whole scene had an ancient, almost classical ugliness to it, for they uttered the same recriminations that have been uttered since the beginning of marriage, and added little of originality to them, and nothing of beauty.
~ James M. Cain
What is uttered is finished and done with.
~ Thomas Mann
Prayer is the heart's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,
~ Thomas Troward
his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.
~ Walter Scott
Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.
~ Harold Holzer
As usual, Ringo Starr uttered the best break-up quote: "This is all news to me.
~ Tim Riley
She doubted that he had ever uttered the words Have a good day in his entire life. Even if he got the right words out, the chill in his hazel eyes would completely nullify the warmth of the sentiment. In his opinion, your failure to have a good day was your problem, not his.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Mshish vemmy shmewy," Clay mumbled
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I asked you to come because I need your help." ... "Those last may be the most difficult four words I've ever uttered in my life," he said. "I thought I would choke saying them." "I thought I'd faint, hearing them," she said. "In my experience, men would rather have a limb amputated than admit they need help. And to seek it from a woman is completely unheard of." He smiled. "The pain is nearly unbearable.
~ Loretta Chase