Spokes Quotes - Page 38

• The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

  Harriet Doerr

  Home, Minutes, Said

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• My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Husband, Boredom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Moving, Grace, Would Be

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.8, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  My Thoughts, Behinds, My Own

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.168, Penguin

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• The stars spoke once to man.
  It is world destiny
  That they are silent now.
  To be aware of the silence
  Can become pain for earthly man.
  But in the deepening silence
  There grows and ripens
  What man speaks to the stars.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Stars, Destiny, Men

  "Art: An Introductory Reader".

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• As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.

  David Abram

  Animal, Talking, Rivers

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• But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1977). “Passions”, Fawcett

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• As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is, not only because when He spoke to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people 'I Am has sent me' (Ex. 3:14), but also because we find that this Name is the more strictly appropriate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Essence, Names

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• Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Adversity, Heart

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• I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Song, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

  Michael King

  Strong, Children, Home

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• I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

  El Anatsui

  Thinking, Wish, Language

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• I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Knowing, Forever, Zorro

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• It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

  Gertrude Bell

  Nice, Wheels, Helping

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “The Letters of Gertrude Bell”, p.1761, eStar Books

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• Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Funny, Halloween, Ghost

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• I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

  Penelope Cruz

  Two, Want, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Strong, Home

  "Martin Chuzzlewit". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 35, 1844.

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• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Eye, Two, White

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• Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

  Francis Scott Key

  Country, Song, Heart

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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Christian, Mother

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• It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

  Jules Renard

  Anger, Thinking, Mad

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• No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

  Bob Dylan

  Thieves, Life Is, Excited

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

  Alberto Manguel

  Confused, Book, Childhood

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• I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

  Lloyd Jones

  Book, Kids, People

  Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

  John Green

  Death, Real, Thinking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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