Heard Quotes - Page 37

• My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home

  Smokey Robinson

  Mother, Home

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• No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.

  Richard Halliburton

  Pain, Stupid, Joy

  Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.

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• I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

  Jane Haddam

  Hate, Book, Lasts

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• I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

  Tony Arata

  Humble, Fans, Firsts

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• History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors.  Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.  Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.

  George Wein

  Beautiful, Foundation, Directors

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• One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.

  Chris Kluwe

  Character, Player, Thinking

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• I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Use, Speech, Sake

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• Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Influence, Human Life, Inventor

  Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)

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• I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their music, comedy, and showmanship.... 'Dakaboom'.. is the genuine article! Two voices in perfect harmony, and with joyful abandon and humor, they take you on a magical, musical, modern day vaudeville tour!! Ben McLain and Paul Peglar are headed for stardom. They are unique, they are original, and they are known as 'Dakaboom.' Don't miss 'em 'cause you're in for a treat!

  Tommy Smothers

  Song, Unique, Two

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• I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.

  Robert Newton Peck

  Mother, Water, Swim

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• If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.

  Craig Murray

  Voice, Empowering, Use

  Craig Murray (2007). “Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

  Michael Fish

  Worry, Today, Way

  Evening weather broadcast, BBC, October 15, 1987.

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• Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.

  Alan Hassenfeld

  People, Mold, Students

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• I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.

  John Aubrey

  Blood, Cracks, Vulgar

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• Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

  Geno Auriemma

  Lying, Years, Deceit

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• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

  Kim Campbell

  Loss, People, Lost Friendship

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I have seen the face of Jesus,      Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus,      All my soul is satisfied. All around is earthly splendour      Earthly scenes lie fair and bright. But mine eyes no longer see them,      For the glory of that light. Light that knows no cloud, no waning,      Light wherein I see His face, All His love’s uncounted treasures,      All the riches of His grace.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Jesus, Lying, Eye

  J. Oswald Sanders (2009). “The Incomparable Christ”, p.16, Moody Publishers

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• The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

  Eric Greitens

  Passion, Joy, Needs

  "A Navy SEAL's wise advice to graduates" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2012.

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• When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

  Willard Wigan

  Black, President, Firsts

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• There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.

  Andrew McMahon

  Couple, Years, People

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• Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

  Adrian Lyne

  Book, Ideas, Trying

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• If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

  Pete Fountain

  Taken, Kids, Thinking

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• Whoever has received knowledge
  and eloquence in speech from God
  should not be silent or secretive
  but demonstrate it willingly.
  When a great good is widely heard of,
  then, and only then, does it bloom,
  and when that good is praised by man,
  it has spread its blossoms.

  Marie de France

  Men, Doe, Speech

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• Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.

  William Mountford

  Stars, Men, Atmosphere

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.174

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• The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hamburgers, Red, Eating

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