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“Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.”

Heart Stills Eye Sin Worst Tongue

Book:Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

“At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.”

People Knows Writing Waiting Difficult Lonely Response Tongue Shy Tied Talk To Me Wait For Me Tongue Tied

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.”

Lovers Kissing Tongue Fluent

Author:Jennifer Calvert

“The tongue has the power of life and death.”

Tongue Life And Death

Author:Solomon

“In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.”

Duty Tongue Fearful Modesty Eloquence Audacious

Author:William Shakespeare

“The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind”

Mind Real Taste Tongue Seats

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

Author:Washington Irving

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

Use Age Grows Tools Anger Constant Tongue Rage Birthday Temper 60th Birthday Tarts Sharp Tongue

Author:Washington Irving

“Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.”

World Mean Light Tongue Mary Light Of The World

Author:Isidore of Seville

“The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.”

President Brain Vices Tongue Zone Vice President Time Zones

Author:Christopher Buckley

“I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.”

People School Break Authority Sticks Tongue Framework Insulting

Author:John Lennon

“Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.”

People Way Sound Poor Class Middle Democrat Tongue Middle Class Snakes Poor People

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Source: A Room of One's Own

“A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue”

Author:Kabir

“The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.”

Long Silence Solitude Ears Tongue Communion

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.”

Way Heart May Song Turns Silence Taste Spring Sentences Tongue

Author:Emily Saliers

“The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.”

Way Jesus Christ Church Salvation Tongue Knees Bows Outlets Fast Food

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“At birth the Devil touched my tongue.”

Birth Devil Tongue Touched

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.”

Women Edges Tongue Wit Invisible Mockery Razors Wenches

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.”

Long Made Stills Done Lines Trouble Long Time Spring Mouths Tongue Mud Thirsty Straight Lines

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.”

Men Way Shows Kids Guy Winning Sports Emotion Team Tongue Bars Slips Acceptable Hug

Author:Richard Jeni

“I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.”

People Feelings Energy Listening Conversation Clubs Tongue Comedian Tone Cheeks Therapists Yelling

Author:Dane Cook

“I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.”

Ifs Play Use Clean Notes Tongue Technique Articulation

Author:Paul Smoker

“Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”

Men World Humans Form Used Language Race Speech Degrees Wings Excellence Tongue More Time New World Introducing Continents Hawks Mingling

Author:Roger Ascham

“I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.”

Men Mean Mark Court Tongue Vanity Pens Applause Pitiful

Book:Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82

Source: Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82

“Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.”

Ifs May Opportunity Language Given Understanding Study Land Tongue Acquire Foreign Language

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“It is important for Christians to spend time praying with or in the spirit-that is, praying in tongues. The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God"”

Important Christian Spirit Son Praying Tongue End Times Spend Time Spirit Of God

Book:How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome

Source: How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome

“When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.”

Spirit Speak Language Communication Direct Tongue Direct Communication

Book:How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome

Source: How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome

“All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.”

Kind Different Song Black White Intention Tongue Different Kinds

Book:Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

Source: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

“I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.”

Light Bounds Tongue Life And Death

Author:Jesse Duplantis

“You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited and now this knife has grown dull. But now I am sending angelic hosts to sharpen your weapon and assist in cutting you through. Your tongue has even grown powerless in this last season because your faith and hope have been deferred. But this is NOW! I will put MY Word in your mouth. You will speak with a new vigor. I AM sharpening your tongue. Get ready, for all things are being sharpened. Get ready, for you will now cut and your way will open up.”

Way Has Beens Lasts Speak Waiting Cutting Ready Weapons Mouths All Things Seasons Tongue Dull Knives Host Powerless Vigor Angelic Hope And Faith Sharpening Machetes

Author:Chuck Pierce

“I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else”

Mean Shows Able Mother Tongue Glad Ashamed Fatherland Mother Tongue

Author:Bedrich Smetana

“When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.”

Ifs Feels Writing Firsts Used Tongue Numb

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.”

I Can Body Mother Universe Return Tongue Rhythm Sanctity Mother Tongue

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.”

Stills Can Do Successful Hip Hop Tongue Hips Hops

Author:Busta Rhymes

“When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.”

Men Breaths Tongue Dumb Organs Obedient

Book:Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

“A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue.”

Ifs Knows Men World May Doe Company Good Things Very Good Ill Tongue Absurd Observation Misplaced Unwelcome

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.”

World Mind Tongue Conceit

Book:Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry

Source: Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry

“I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.”

People Heart Play Emotional My Heart Cancer Tongue Cheeks Sleeves Heart On My Sleeve

Author:Hilarie Burton

“Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.”

“Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.”

People Want Feels I Can Hate Found Hurt Honest Serious Fit Clubs Tongue Brutal Phony Honest People Baloney

Author:Jackee Harry

“I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Facts Goes On Habit Easier Late Training Tongue Singers Breathing Relaxation Lungs Bad Habits Easier Times

Author:Joan Baez

“Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.”

Virtue Judging Ought Integrity All Things Witty Tongue Portions Plausible

Author:Francis Bacon

“When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.”

People Said Wish Office Tongue

Author:Bill Maher

“Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.”

Care Concern Tongue Gates

Author:Theognis of Megara

“Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.”

Heart Tongue Reins

Author:Minna Antrim

“In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top”

Years Doe Names Language Organization Tongue Lists Phrases Cheeks Politically Correct Nonprofits Tongue In Cheek

Book:Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds

Source: Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds

“I went from being just a kid to all of a sudden not being able to walk a block without a man waggling his tongue through his fingers, which is disgusting. I mean, I was 13 and suddenly I'm trying to see myself through the eyes of men, trying to figure out why I'm getting this reaction from them versus just being able to walk through the world whole.”

Men World Trying Mean Whole Eye Kids Able Walks Figures Fingers Tongue Reactions Block Disgusting Just Being Versus Through The Eyes

Author:Rose McGowan

“I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me.”

“I will speak with a straight tongue.”

Author:Chief Joseph