Bells Ringing Quotes

• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

  Ezra Pound

  People, Church, Literature

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• In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. Its not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

  Plautus

  Moving, Dumb, Bells

  "Trinummus", IV, 2, 162, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 67-69, 1922.

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• Ring the bells that still can ring.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Perfect, Giving Light

  FaceBook post by Leonard Cohen from Mar 11, 2009

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• Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happy, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Silver Bells, Icy, Rhyme

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Country

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• Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

  Anne Rice

  Secret, Bells, Hell

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.727, Ballantine Books

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• The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
  [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

  Plautus

  Moving, Dumb, Bells

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• Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Air

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

  Rob Bell

  Fear, Real, Track

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• Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Tombstone, Angel

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• So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Christ is risen from the dead!

  Keith Green

  Easter, Resurrection, Christ

  Song: Easter Song

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• I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

  Jo Brand

  Fun, Dad, Sunday

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• While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

  Thomas Hood

  Joy, Bells, Able

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• The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.

  Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

  Oil, Risk, Arabia

  "Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields" by Jeff Gerth, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2004.

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