#whisper

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#discerning-whispers #fate #inspiration #promptings #signs

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk. (Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) ↗

— Marlowe Christopher

#heaven #love #stars #whisper #love

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#cries #government #lobbyists #often #people

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#equally #especially #i #i love #immediacy

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#else #flute #heart #hours #music

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. ↗

— William Greider

#leaks #routine #washington #whispers

...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering... ↗

— John Geddes

#voice-whisper #wisdom-inspirational #write #inspirational

My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window ↗

— Katja Millay

#rain #regret #whisper #alcohol