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Quotes About Tongue

To become the mirror, I criticise myself. I do not misuse and violate the freedom of speech and the press, but I am mostly out and overdosed. I cannot stop without gaming the system. The licence of the tongue and the pen gun is in my hands.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The sun was a dog with a hot, dry tongue that licked and licked me until it woke me up.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
The priest must not postpone this union with the Holy Spirit to a more convenient season (Acts 24:25). If he neglects growth, decay sets in. There comes a time when it is too late to repent, even to ask for a drop of water to 'cool my tongue' (Lk 16:24).
~ Fulton J. Sheen
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
~ Roger Ascham
fear feels like sand on your tongue
~ Ruth Klüger
God knew she was a troublesome wench, with a tongue that could strip the barnacles off a ship's hull.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll To be lit up from within vein by vein To be the sun
~ Margaret Atwood
This is "poetry," this song of the wind across teeth, this message from the flayed tongue to the flayed ear.
~ Margaret Atwood
One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to hold your tongue, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over. Yours
~ Anne Frank
The beautiful boy with the auburn hair who was Amadeo gazed at me calmly as Riccardo spoke. And once again he said in the soft Russian tongue: Master, which the other boys did not hear.
~ Anne Rice
Ah, but you have a fiery tongue for one with such a sweet face," he said with cool wonder. "So pliant you seem with your soft brown eyes and dark autumnal red hair, but you are clever.
~ Anne Rice
Shutup, lapdog, this isn't your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?" – Abigail "I can roll my tongue." – Sundown "I'm serious, Jess." – Abigail "So am I. Not everyone can do it. It's a genetic thing, you know." – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When we risk no contradiction,It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
~ John Gay
The tongue is a boneless creature that is more deadly than a rattlesnake, and lurking behind the enamel fence of your teeth, it is always ready to strike.
~ John Hagee
Oh, that was fang indeed, and the flicker of a long forked tongue in silent laughter.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.
~ Elizabeth Cary
All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
~ Author Unknown
Yaddeechachasi Vasheekartu Jagadeken Karmana. Paraapavaadashaastreebhyo Gaam Charanteem Nivaarya. If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. —James 1:26
~ Gary Chapman
Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,Of His Flesh the mystery sing;Of the Blood, all price exceeding,Shed by our immortal King.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas