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Quotes About Letters

his letters came in light blue envelopes with stamps the color of whole-wheat bread.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Needless to say, the dynamic of the resurrection and a God who cannot be buried for long is the dynamic of a child's jack-in-the-box writ large in golden cosmic letters.
~ Os Guinness
I'm told that some men heat their bath water by burning the love letters they get from women
~ Osamu Dazai
Lo que más odio de escribir en la era digital es que todo acaba por desaparecer. Es como escribir cartas que se evaporan en el aire después de que uno las lea. Por eso hago copias. El papel dura siempre.
~ Patrick Carman
Las cartas por sí solas no pueden conquistar el amor de una mujer.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
~ Patti Smith
Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.
~ Paul Fussell
Ler trevas. Nas letras, ler tudo o que de ler não te atrevas. Ler mais. Ler além. Além do bem. Além do mal. Além do além.
~ Unknown
Florence had noticed one or two eccentricities in herself lately, which might be the result of hard work, or of age, or of living alone. When the letters came, for example, she often found herself wasting time in looking at the postmarks and wondering whoever they could be from, instead of opening them in a sensible manner and finding out at once.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
we don't have a twenty-letter alphabet, we have a twenty-six-letter alphabet." And then I say, "Oh, I guess I left out U R A Q T!" And then you say, "That's still only twenty-five." And I say, "I'll give you the D later.
~ Penn Jillette
Only to read their letters, notes and poems, not to see them smiling … They distilled their wisdom in writing, not in prizes … For a kind of heavenly sense made clear, for an hour, deep inside us: That's why we read the wise.
~ Unknown
Paul is "our guy," and we Protestants continue to expect from him clear direction about what to believe and what to do. And Paul certainly seems to oblige. He has that alluring black-and-white, decisive, uncompromising "just do what I say" quality that some of us just can't get enough of. It's almost as if Paul's letters have become the Protestant version of the Law.
~ Unknown
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
~ 2 Kings 10:1
At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiahís illness.
~ 2 Kings 20:12
I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
~ Nehemiah 2:7
Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the kingís letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
~ Nehemiah 2:9
Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiahís letters came back to them.
~ Nehemiah 6:17
Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiahís good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.
~ Nehemiah 6:19
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
~ Esther 9:20
And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,
~ Esther 9:30
At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiahís illness and recovery.
~ Isaiah 39:1
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
~ Jeremiah 29:25
as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.
~ Acts 22:5
The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.
~ Acts 28:21