Heard Quotes - Page 25

• The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

  Charles Lamb

  Zion, Voice, Cheerful

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.70

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• We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Powerful, Gun

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 10, 2011

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• Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

  Erich Fromm

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

  Gaius Marius

  Law, Arms, Speak

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• Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Art, Principles, Different

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• The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Song, Guitar, Bob

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• I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

  Hugo Chavez

  Civilization, Venezuela, Mars

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• Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

  William Carlos Williams

  Different, Use, Demand

  William Carlos Williams' detail and prosody for his poem "Paterson" given to James Laughlin (now at Houghton Library), 1939.

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• The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

  William Carlos Williams

  Language, Idiom, Offers

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• What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

  Michele Bachmann

  Liberty, World, Common

  "Disaster in the Pacific". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. March 13, 2011.

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• Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Kids, Years

  "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

  Walt Whitman

  Talking, Ends, Talkers

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.25, University of Iowa Press

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• I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.

  Rocky Marciano

  Moving, Feelings, Faces

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wall, Views, Years

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

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• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Military, Echoes, New Orleans

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• People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Fall, People

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 136, 1678.

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• When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

  Julius Nyerere

  Song, School, Rocks

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• So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.

  Liz Phair

  Artist, Doe, Liz

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• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Japan, Ideas, People

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• Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Men, People, Wake Up

  "Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments".

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• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Animal, Might

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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• As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

  David Blaine

  Kids, People, Miracle

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

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• During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. … He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant I was going to win. But after the primary, I got credibility.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Winning, Voice, Said

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• I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.

  Kevin Durant

  Thinking, Years, League

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

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• I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

  Chris Paul

  Oklahoma City, Cities, Tornadoes

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