Babbling Quotes

• I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Running, Lying, Rain

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• If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

  Robert Breault

  God, Secret, Whispering

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• There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

  Dan Harmon

  Lines, Consciousness, Brooks

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• It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

  Mike Royko

  Views, Bipolar, Lunatic Asylums

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• There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Type, Standing Still

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• Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Silence, Mark, Folly

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.295, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.

  Eoin Colfer

  Said, Hasty, Foolishness

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “Airman”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• There’s always time for babbling.

  Eoin Colfer

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• April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

  Dante Alighieri

  World, Follow Me

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 911-917, 1922.

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• Silence
  is an ocean. Speech is a river.
  When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
  into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
  and bring your talky business to an end.
  Traditional words are just babbling
  in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
  for sight.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Sight, Rivers

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

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• Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

  Julie Andrews

  Water, Splashing, Sound

  Julie Andrews (2008). “Home: a memoir of my early years”

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• Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Spring, Mean

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• As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

  Renita J. Weems

  Giving, Silence, Depth

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Guy, Looks, Faces

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• 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

  Angel, Vision, Utterance

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• Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
  Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
  Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
  Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Strong, Law

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Party, Doubt, Earth

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• That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk by falling, to talk by babbling, to shoot a basket by missing, and to color the inside of a square by scribbling outside the box. Those who intensely fear failing end up falling short of their potential. We either learn to fail or we fail to learn.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Fall, Successful, Squares

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• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Johannes Tauler

  Prayer, Believe, Psalms

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• Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.

  St. Sukie de la Croix

  Zombie, Insane, Thanks

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• No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.

  John L. Lewis

  Play, Political, Hats

  1937 Address, 3 Sep. Recalled on his death 11 Jun 1969.

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• Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

  David Luiz

  Technology, Years, Twenties

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• When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.

  Zoro

  World, One Piece, Excuse

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