#echo

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#echoes #fall #forest #hundred #oak

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#always #amusing #coquette #echo #i

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #beauty

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#debate #echo #like #more #often

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#am #believe #claim #echoes #i

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#better #echo #going #hearing #i

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#away #conflict #echoes #freedom #given

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#echo #knowledge #lost #mist #soon

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

#darkness #echo #fight #gnaws #how