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Quotes About Whispering

Kaip greitai nakt? lekia mintys po kojom šerkšnui girgždant.
~ John Steinbeck
I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Forgive this breaking body as you forgive the star, the star whispering in the wind when the star is no more. Forgive this secret none can tell. None can tell and live.
~ Marguerite Young
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
~ Mario Batali
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now.
~ Mario Batali
So T. S. Eliot's helpful reminder from "Gerontion": "History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, / Guides us by vanities.")
~ Unknown
The woman who can whisper in her husband's ear wields more power de facto, or rather is often alleged to, than the colleagues who can only send official requests and memos.
~ Mary Beard
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
Death isn't a curse. It's the shadow that gives life its form, and that shadow's whispering to me now.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The ocean talks to you. Especially at night. Whispering voices that never let up, not even when you sleep.
~ Matt de la Pena
Whispering from her towers [Oxford] the last enchantments of the Middle Age…. Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~ Matthew Arnold
Don't let me die. Not now , he begged. Why? she demanded to know. Because I deserve to live. A hand suddenly gripped his wrist. He wondered if the hold came from the realms of the gods. But he didn't care. All he knew was what the Goddess was whispering to him, He'll never let you go. How could you have ever doubted him?
~ Melina Marchetta
This was it. She felt it in her soul as if someone were whispering over her shoulder that after years of waiting, the Fae were about to disclose to her the purpose and the place they intended for her. A purpose and a place where she belonged, because she knew for a fact she didn't belong here.
~ Unknown
The man cupped his hand in front of his lips, speaking to me out of the side of his mouth, so no one would hear – he told me that he enjoyed watching people die.
~ Unknown
Closing his eyes, he feels the weight of the angel as she straddles his thighs. She leans forward, her breath on his cheek, her lips close to his ear, whispering, 'Remember your promise.
~ Michael Robotham
S?n?f dediÄŸin nedir? Otuz baÅŸl?, altm?? ayakl? büyük bir hayvan. K?p?r k?p?r, gülen, yerinde duramayan, f?s?ldayan, ka??nan, uyuklayan, düÅŸler kuran bir canavar.- O, Lucie ya da Gölgesiz Kad?n
~ Michel Tournier
As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering its story to him out of the darkness in snatches, in a huge confessional where he could not see the faces…
~ Morley Callaghan
There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.
~ Naomi Novik
Lying naked and cold beneath the perfect, whispering dark, I imagined I could feel the curve of the earth under my back, that I circled the whole planet so that my soles touched the top of my head and I blended with the dirt.
~ Nicola Griffith
inches away, quacking softly
~ Patrick Carman
Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Beneath the noise, below the din, I hear a voice, it's whispering, "In science and in medicine, "I was a stranger, you took me in."
~ Unknown
as St Augustine put it, was man a mere child playing in the rock pools of a beach ignoring the great ocean whispering beside him?
~ Unknown
Mi pasión es rumor de un palmar." As Victoria led him into the hut, Steve murmured: "My passion is the whispering of palm trees.
~ Paul Levine