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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• 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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• 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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• Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.

  Ian Mcewan

  Religious, Art, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan. Reviewed in "The Wounds of Love" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 2002.

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• There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Stars, Ocean, Heart

  Stephen Kendrick (2007). “Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes”, p.39, Vintage

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• Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

  Os Guinness

  Integrity, Sleep, Errors

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• Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Childhood, Body, Faces

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.34, Penguin

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• But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Body, Want, Infection

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• We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

  Wendell Berry

  Saws, Speech, Kind

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Lying, Form, Pulling

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If.You.Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Laughing, Waiting

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.34, Penguin

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• Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth.” “Really? Did it work?” “Well, I haven’t had a toothache since I met her.” “I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Giving, Rose, Teeth

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