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How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you. -- John Ashbery
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. -- James Montgomery
A word once uttered can never be recalled. -- Horace
What is uttered is finished and done with. -- Thomas Mann
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. -- Mencius
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- Saint Augustine
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. -- Salman Rushdie
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't. -- Sam Harris
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. -- Thomas Goodwin
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you. -- Vin Scully
If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints. -- David A. Bednar
I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well. -- Michael Moore
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. -- Moss Hart
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. -- William Cobbett
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' -- Arthur H. Compton
When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. -- Scott McClellan
Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them. -- Kurt Sutter
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.' -- Caroline Knapp
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. -- Iyanla Vanzant
A thought, once uttered, is untrue -- Fyodor Tyutchev
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. -- Philip Sidney
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous. -- Mencius
Each life is one short word slowly uttered. -- Louise Erdrich
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy -- George Orwell
What is right may properly be uttered even twice. -- Empedocles
Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. -- Aeschylus
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes. -- Khalil Gibran
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered. -- Richard Hooker
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. -- Charles Spurgeon
Heaven is inside us,' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper. -- H. L. Balcomb
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. -- Nikolai Gogol
The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. -- Juvenal
Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home. -- Julie Andrews
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered. -- Paul Bourget
Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother. -- Elizabeth Hoyt
The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.' -- Julie Andrews
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The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. -- Howard Zinn
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. -- Plutarch
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. -- Orson Scott Card
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. -- George Bernard Shaw
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. -- Joanna Baillie
If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail. -- Ted Nugent
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech. -- Oliver Herford
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. -- Arthur Helps
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. -- Matthew Arnold
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. -- Adolf Hitler
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil. -- Caleb Cushing
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. -- Charlotte Bronte
Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time' to allure and spellbind an audience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? -- Christopher Buckley
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. -- Emily Dickinson
Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? -- Saint John Chrysostom
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. -- Ole Hallesby
Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. -- Hugo Black
I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered. -- Mira Grant
The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. -- Henry Clay
There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony. -- Yahtzee Croshaw
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible. -- Michel Seuphor
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever. -- Christopher Hitchens
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it. -- Andrew Dickson White
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved? -- Ovid
The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar. -- Thiruvalluvar
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly. -- Alice Childress
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. -- Mario Puzo
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night. -- Ben Jonson
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.... -- Edgar Allan Poe
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. -- Ambrose Bierce
You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master. -- Jonathan Renshaw
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action. -- Thucydides
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness. -- Lafcadio Hearn
There is no more embarrassing thing in my life that the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, I would like to order the Ginsu Knife. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear. -- Woodrow Wilson
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture. -- Thomas Jefferson
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: "?He has turned round' "? she comprehended nothing and said softly: "?Who? -- Rainer Maria Rilke
'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered. -- Judd Nelson
He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'..... -- Leon M. Lederman
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend. -- Frances Osborne
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. -- Saint Augustine
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported. -- Samuel Johnson
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. -- John Keats
For all Wichtig spoke of trust, he trusted no one. For all he spoke of wisdom, he learned nothing. Every word he uttered was done so with an eye toward manipulation. -- Michael R. Fletcher
Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered. -- Maggie Young
On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss. -- Christopher Paolini
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music. -- Gilbert Highet
Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now. -- Emily Giffin
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down. -- Emile Zola
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. -- J. K. Bharavi
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces? -- Karl Kraus
When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. -- John Climacus
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered. -- Henry David Thoreau

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