Utter Quotes

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

Gratitude, Live, Forget

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha

Good, Care, Words

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

Men, Young, Maxims

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Calm

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

Great, Wise, Understand

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Said, Able, Dislike

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.
Mitt Romney

Someone, Confidence, Doubt

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
Mitt Romney

Time, Fear, Live

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

Question, Understood, Sentence

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
William Wordsworth

Sleep, Forgetting, Birth

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson

Truth, Him, Down

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch

Religion, Teacher, Spiritual

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood

Human, Silence, Together

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck

Loneliness, Writer, Explain

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus

Happiness, Free, Shall

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
Michelle Obama

Work, Talk, Ideas

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Long, Once, Word

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.
Rush Limbaugh

Real, Here, Making

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton

Give, Liberty, Conscience

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman

Fool, Else, Speak

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sounds, Brute, Consonants

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
James Earl Jones

Life, Heart, Words

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.
Jolene Blalock

Girl, Powerful, Loyalty

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
Elizabeth Edwards

Father, Nothing, Living

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
Thomas Frank

Politics, Freedom, Human

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Joseph Brodsky

Life, Time, Boredom

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Benjamin Carson

Success, Failure, Everything

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
George McGovern

Good, War, Hard

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie

Words, Why, Moment

I'm a complete and utter busker.
Bryan Adams

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