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  • Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. -- Ezra Pound
  • There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • "Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera." -- Margaret Bourke-White
  • Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. -- Margaret Bourke-White
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  • A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster. -- Noam Chomsky
  • It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. -- Aristotle
  • I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. -- Niels Bohr
  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. -- John Milton
  • As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  • It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. -- Charles Simmons
  • After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. -- Mo Udall
  • Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. -- Gautama Buddha
  • I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. -- George McGovern
  • As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. -- William Wordsworth
  • There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. -- Elizabeth Edwards
  • The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. -- Mitt Romney
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  • People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
  • Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have. -- Prince Charles
  • I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. -- Michel Onfray
  • I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. -- Aristotle
  • Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. -- Jeff Goodell
  • When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that. -- Bono
  • I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern. -- Joanna Lumley
  • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. -- Saint Basil
  • Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. -- John Barrow
  • I'm a complete and utter busker. -- Bryan Adams
  • Being an uncle brings me utter joy. -- Russell Tovey
  • I utter what you would not dare think -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • In an utter emptiness anything can take place. -- John Cage
  • A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Never utter the truism but live it among men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself. -- Seamus Heaney
  • Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. -- Erica Jong
  • Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. -- William Faulkner
  • In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. -- John Steinbeck
  • The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. -- Malcolm Wallop
  • The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever. -- Tim LaHaye
  • I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. -- Matthew Shipp
  • He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite. -- Graham McTavish
  • The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent. -- Mao Zedong
  • It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way. -- Horace
  • No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing. -- Alan Watts
  • Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. -- Peter Drucker
  • I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are. -- Colum McCann
  • Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. -- Plato
  • My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow. -- Lena Headey
  • Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. -- Franz Kafka
  • Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. -- William Shakespeare
  • There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. -- William Allen White
  • To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. -- Malachy McCourt
  • Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love. -- Charles Darwin
  • Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes. -- Tennessee Williams
  • To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. -- G. Campbell Morgan
  • They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment. -- William Feather
  • It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. -- Neil Gaiman
  • To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity. -- John Calvin
  • Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. -- Thomas Sowell
  • It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none -- William Wordsworth
  • Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. -- Simone Weil
  • He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done -- John Galsworthy
  • Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. -- James Geary
  • I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. -- Wendell Phillips
  • The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion. -- Hetty King
  • Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please. -- John Ray
  • Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. -- William Shakespeare
  • The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. -- Coventry Patmore
  • The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge. -- Kathe Koja
  • Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation! -- George Bernard Shaw
  • A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic. -- Drew Chadwick
  • The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-. -- Emily Dickinson
  • The fastest way to get attention in the ER is to utter the words, chest pain. -- Brenda Priddy
  • The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • 'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.' -- Douglas Adams
  • I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society. -- Daniel Negreanu
  • Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. -- Steven Whitney
  • If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. -- Guy Davenport
  • There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. -- Guy Davenport
  • Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity? -- V.S. Carnes
  • Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. -- Billy Graham
  • Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. -- Khalil Gibran
  • To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him. -- Socrates
  • Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. -- Dallas Willard
  • Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other... -- Canibus
  • People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense. -- Bernard Marcus
  • The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. -- Douglas Adams
  • Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death -- Anais Nin
  • The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise. -- Peter Green
  • The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. -- John Lancaster Spalding
  • All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -- James Earl Jones
  • In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. -- Nancy Mairs
  • It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. -- Plutarch
  • During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. -- John Adams
  • I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
  • The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. -- Minnie Driver
  • If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace. -- David Miscavige
  • Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. -- John Climacus
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