Quotes by Utterance No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. Abraham Lincoln utterance oppression clients The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. Al Swearengen utterance kings character Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article. Alasdair MacIntyre utterance psychology ethics It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances. Alexander Crummell utterance soul listening Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. Ali ibn Abi Talib utterance expression secret The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. Allan Sekula utterance photograph messages Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Ambrose Bierce common-sense utterance truth JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. Ambrose Bierce amusement utterance kings The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn-- Bill Bryson utterance snakes earth Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed. Catharine MacKinnon utterance power believe You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles Spurgeon utterance fashion weak Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. C.P. Cavafy oracles utterance age God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik utterance poet giving If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything. Donald Davidson utterance behaviour way I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. Earl Browder breaking-silence utterance war When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase. Edward Ruscha boss utterance flower If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness. Edwin Hubbel Chapin utterance vision angel True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring. Elias Lyman Magoon utterance humanity heart Utterance is the evidence of foregone study. Elizabeth Barrett Browning evidence utterance study There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another. Empedocles utterance blessed long 1234»
