#peaks

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. ↗

— William Congreve

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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ↗

— Homer

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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#child #half #more #sense #speaks

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it. ↗

— Norton Simon

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We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#need #speaks #still #thinks #voice

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

Where words fail, music speaks. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#music #speaks #where #words

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#force #live #moral #out #right