Verses Quotes - Page 21

• What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

  Joell Ortiz

  Art, Children, Nice

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Profound, Doubt

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• What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

  Dante Alighieri

  Knows, Ifs

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• Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Satanic, Behave

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• The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Today, Scripture, Favourite

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• Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you!

  Amy Carmichael

  Monday, Morning, Fighting

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.44, CLC Publications

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment. Propositions in geometry may be proved, systems in physics may be controverted; but the harmony of verse, the tenderness of passion, the brilliancy of wit, must give immediate pleasure. No man reasons concerning another's beauty; but frequently concerning the justice or injustice of his actions.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Giving

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.131, VM eBooks

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• A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.

  Alasdair Gray

  Numbers, Immature, Ordinary

  "Unlikely Stories, Mostly". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1983.

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• Wisdom married to immortal verse.

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Married, Immortal

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.334

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• EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Sometimes, Prose

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Real, Eye

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• There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like electronic rosaries. It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn’t matter what is flashing on the screen-all that’s important is that the TV stays on.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Home, Hands, Shopping

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• Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

  Mark Rylance

  Jobs, Stars, Opportunity

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

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• And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

  Richard Selzer

  Soul, Body, Scar

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've been writing verses
  For 60 years...phew!
  And d'yer know why I did it?
  T'was especially for you

  John Walter Bratton

  Farewell, Writing, Wedding Anniversary

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• There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Jesus, Giving, Scripture

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• My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!

  Bob Carlisle

  Girl, Daughter, Butterfly

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• I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

  Misha Collins

  Airplane, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

  SonReal

  People, Hip Hop, Singing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten He says, 'This is the one about whom it is written, 'I'll send my messenger ahead of you who will prepare Your way before You.' Jesus says, 'If it wasn't for John, I wouldn't even be here performing these miracles.'

  Steven Furtick

  Jesus, Miracle, Crowds

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• Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

  Gotye

  Thinking, Hook, Becoming

  "Gotye Braces For Stateside Success With 'Somebody That I Used To Know'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

  Andy Stanley

  Cheating, Book, People

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• I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

  Alfred Nobel

  Writing, Purpose, Now And Then

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