Speech Quotes — page 15

As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine …

They who talk so much of the catholic Church, but indeed stand for their own particular, must of force sink as low in uncharitableness, as they have thrust themselves deep in schism. We who talk less of the universality of the Church, but …

The NARROW-MINDED BIGOTS have given to this country and to the world freedom of speech, freedom of thought and action and religious liberty.

And, indeed, has not nature given, to almost every creature, the same spontaneous signs of the various affections? Admire we not in other animals whatever is most eloquent in man, the tremor of desire, the tear of distress, the piercing …

The Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us, knowing our wants better than we, Himself pleads in our prayers, raising us to higher and holier desires than we can express in words, which can only find utterance in sighings and aspirations.

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of …

I want to see all of my people and speak to them so that we may forever be friends.

I am one of those men who never enter into controversies but I shall certainly speak my views to anybody whom I may meet on the subject.

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

What is new poetry? The difference is not mere details of form, measure rhyme schemes or diction, but a return to contemporary speech, thought, imagination and spiritual life, coupled with oriental (Japan & China) and cosmopolitan …

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

Shrews are tamed only by silence.

The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island.

I willingly accept Cassandra's fate, To speak the truth, although believ'd too late.

The framers of the Constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where …

Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.

And silence their mourning With vows of returning But never intending to visit them more. No never, no never, intending to visit them more.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Every one that flatters thee Is no friends in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

As I understand it, art is one of the chief organs of what, for want of a better word, I must call the spiritual life.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear‐cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!