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“After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.”

Made Inspiring Secret Promise Kissing Mouths Ears Proof Range Confession Precise Vow Seals Pact

Author:Edmond Rostand

“Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.”

World Mind Made Stills Sound Silence Ears Flesh Passing Passings Shade Bells Cheat Resigned Chimes

Book:The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]

Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]

“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.”

Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including

“Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.”

Mind Humans Made Eye Sound Please Ears Colour Human Mind Quantity

Author:Johannes Kepler

“I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.”

Mind Made Matter Bigs Hurt Jokes Ears No Matter What Nuts I Was Hurt

Author:Jimmy Durante

“Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood, telling all the kids that there was no Santa Claus. This reached the ears of the father of a neighbouring family, who reproved me for spoiling it for the little ones. Spoiling it! I could not understand what he meant. To my mind, they were being made fools of, and I was only saving them from this indignity.”

Mind Children Littles Made Kids Father Atheism Fool Ears Positive Atheism Tricks Saving Santa Santa Claus Crusades Indignity Neighbourhoods

Author:Barbara Smoker

“children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.”

Children Made Eye Minutes Ears Observation

Book:Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.”

Made Strong Music Ears Harmony Remains Convinced Statements Occasions Length Disorder Distress Something Better Uneasy Momentary Discord Unsatisfied Dissonance Amends Paraphrase Disharmony

Author:John Cage

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.”

Want Trying Made I Can Reason Play Hands Guy Bits Sound Heard Strange Please Picks Ears Guitar Made It Shakes Steel Bottlenecks Trill

Author:B. B. King

“I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.”

Believe Littles Long Made Kids Guy Hate Fighting Levels Cities Fantasy Feet Crime New York Ears I Hate Hated New York City Bats Superhero Little Kid Gorillas Tights

Author:Stephen R. Bissette

“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.”

“Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.”

Giving May Mean Made Able Left Theory Keys Ought Ears Notes Bars Holes Mathematical Tunes Strings Architect Twisted Beam Workmen

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.”

Kind Doe Made Philosophy Eye Culture Cases Achieve Habit Demand Intellectual Ears Intelligent Recovery Primitive Vets

Book:The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature

Source: The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature

“If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear….Nobody's music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Made Stills Ideas Enemy Music Is Ears Paid Made It Toxic

Author:John Mayer

“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.”

“In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.”

“"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Made War Eye Plans Figures Red Ears Dawn War Of The Worlds Over You World War Ii World War I Red Dawn

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.”

Made Shows Company Enemy Break Hell Ears Sensitive Employee Heritage Friday Casual Cultural Heritage Necklaces Casual Friday

Author:Brad Wilkerson

“Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.”

Wells Looks Art Made Together Cutting Ears Resistance Selling Vans

Author:Albert Brooks

“I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Eye Used Example Shapes Garden Ears Dresses Queens Just One Reign Virgins Spy Castles Appearing Symbolism Queen Elizabeth Wearing A Dress

Author:Martha Ronk

“When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.”

“Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.”

Mean Made Ends Fall Powerful Moral Ears Violent Appeals Destructive Mechanism Acceptable Justification Deaf Portraying Disengagement Deaf Ears

Author:Albert Bandura

“My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!”

Thinking Made States Imagine Sweet Lovers Ears Hearing Confession Assistance Obliged Trumpets Whispering

Book:The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche

Source: The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche

“There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.”

Made Bigs House Doors Paper Mouths Ears Treasure Golden Giants Thick Nails Caves Entrances Ovens Keyholes Gingerbread

Author:Michael Ende

“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else”

Knows World Made Two Turns Father White Too Much Information Safe Ears Radio Noise Upset Tunes Stations Volume Halfway Foreheads Lawns Outside World Groaning Too Much Information White Noise

Author:Mark Haddon

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

World Made Lasts Beautiful Mother Turns Grows Loses Too Much Grace Sadness Figures Youth Ordinary Ears Decades Flawed Gave Up Wrinkles Collars Pears

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.”

Kind Made Streets Cry Tears Ears Phones Cells Pretending Cell Phone Hysterical

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.”

World Made Fighting Speak Voice Inspiring Brother Bird Weak Ears Dumb My Brother Beast Animal Rights Deaf Keepers Voiceless

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.”

Made Eye Faces Names Sound Blood Arms Mouths Window Ears Bones Shoulders Buried Laughed Salt Her Eyes Jace Simplest Luke Ardor

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.”

Men World Made Stills Running Names Economy Environment Ears Mess Disappointed Pigs Dominant Testosterone Disappointed In You

Book:The Hell of it All

Source: The Hell of it All

“He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. “Welcome home. I’m glad you made it. There is coffee in the kitchen for you.” My mouth gaped open. He inhaled my scent, bent close, about to kiss me… I just stood there like an idiot. Curran smirked and whispered in my ear instead. “Psych.” And just like that, he was out the door and gone. Oh boy.”

Made Book Home Past Wish Boys Gone Doors Kissing Mouths Ears Rose Coffee Glad Welcome Made It Idiot Kitchen Expecting Scent Bent Kiss Me Psych Welcome Home

Book:Magic Burns

Source: Magic Burns

“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.”

“She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, "Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again.”

Made Doors Like You Bed Mouths Ears Moved Making Love Whispering

Book:Three Complete Novels

Source: Three Complete Novels

“You put on such a brave front. But I know if I took another step toward you, you'd wet your pants." "With your blood." I brandished my knife. But I couldn't keep a straight face; the boast sounded ridiculous even to my own ears. I snickered. She laughed. The release of tension made me giddy, and soon I was laughing and crying.”

Ifs Knows Made Faces My Own Steps Laughing Blood Fronts Cry Ears Brave Ridiculous Release Tension Laughed Knives Pants Wet Boast Giddy Straight Face

Author:Maria V. Snyder

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”

“It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.”

Way Littles Made Helping Wanted Night Fall Sides Hair Normal Ears Wings Edges Caught Smell Stuck Necks Selfless Desks Thumbs Weird Things Lucy Dizzy Normal Things

Author:Ann Brashares

“I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. "That's what you wanted, isn't it?" It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. "Yes," she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. "That's what I wanted.”

Ifs Want Heart Long Made Said Would Be Eye Wanted Voice Answers Pieces Heard Brother Long Time Expectations Ears Wave Sand Hopeful Scream Salt Far Away Echoes Her Eyes Your Brother Spray Smashing

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“What about your freedom?" he whispered in her ear over a minute later, bracing his hands palms down on the wall beside her head. He made no move to stop her as she stroked and petted every inch of that sinfully gorgeous chest, all hard muscle and gleaming skin overlaid with silky-rough strands of dark hair. "Idiot." She nipped his jaw with her teeth. "The only freedom I ever wanted was the right to love you.”

Made Hard Hands Wanted Moving Dark Minutes Love You Hair Wall Skins Ears Teeth Idiot Muscles Rough Chests Inches Palms Gorgeous Strands Your Freedom Dark Hair

Book:Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio

Source: Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio

“Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.”

Ifs Littles Long Made Two Girl Names Felt Plans Seeing Minutes Ears Flying Enthusiasm Glorious Encounters Agendas Consistency Stubborn Completion Reunion Rosie Dachshunds Pigtails

Author:Mary Doria Russell

“Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”

People Mind Littles Made Real Matter Hard Beautiful Loses Boys Magic Week Grew Shapes Ears Spots Brown Grey Rabbits Faded Nursery Shabby Whiskers

Book:The Velveteen Rabbit

Source: The Velveteen Rabbit

“He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.”

Has Beens Made Said Moments Wanted Hours Mets Ears Breaths Cheeks Bent Will Herondale Spoken Word

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.”

Years Made Asks Wish Tree Years Ago Ears Marcos

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Instead of replying, Alec reached down and took Magnus's hands. Magnus let Alec pull him to his feet, a questioning look in his eyes. Before he could say anything, Alec drew him closer and kissed him. Magnus made a soft, pleased sound, and gripped the back of Alec's shirt, rucking it up, his fingers cool on Alec's spine. Alec leaned into him, pinning Magnus between the table and his own body. Not that Magnus seemed to mind. 'Come on,' Alec said against Magnus's ear. 'It's late. Let's go to bed.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.”

Made Beautiful Three Felt Sound Alive Heard Hair Skins Ears Breaths Filled Senses Tunes Throat Beautiful Things Palms Vibrate Physical Things Auditoriums Tune Up

Author:Jojo Moyes

“She had time to make room for him in her closet. The cat had time to get used to him. They had all the time they needed, because he'd told her he was hers, and he was a man of his word. "I've got all I need," she told him. He leaned down and kissed her again, then stroked a finger over her temple, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "I want you to know," he said. "That you're the best choice I ever made." "No regrets?" "No regrets.”

Knows Men Want Needs Made Said Used Choices Rooms Behinds Regret Hair Needed Cat Ears Down And Fingers Temples I Want You Closets No Regrets Strands You Re The Best

Author:Jill Shalvis

“I don’t think I’m making myself very clear Low,” he’d lowered his voice and the effect made goose bumps break out over my body. “I was only interested in one person at that bar last night. I only came to see one person,” he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear and softly caressed my earlobe before tracing the line of my jaw. “I was there for you.”

Thinking Persons Made Body Lasts Night Voice Lines Behinds Break Clear Effects Hair Lows Ears Bars Last Night Bumps Geese Break Out Strands Tracing

Book:Because of Low

Source: Because of Low

“Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did.”

Made Faces Hurt Ears Dancing Annabeth Ugh Grover Grover Underwood Thalia Grace

Book:The Titan's curse

Source: The Titan's curse

“Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything." "There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce." Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker." The image made Kendra giggle.”

Needs Made I Can Waiting Sides Doors Ready Ten Ears Heavy Pairs Weed Boots Giggle Shrimp Brownies Far Side Patiently Waiting Heavy Boots

Book:Grip of the Shadow Plague

Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague