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The Sound
«As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether thy be wise or foolish»
Author: Demosthenes
| About:
Foolishness,
Mankind,
Speech,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
cracked, proved, Speeches, The Sound, vessel
«A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name»
«Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.»
Author: Nancy Lopez
| About:
Doubt,
Judgement,
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
above, Everything You, everywhere, judge, Judges, judgment, of your own, rise, sound, sound judgment, The Sound, voice
«Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!»
«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bodily, concept, echo, everlasting, fades, fame, Great Spirit, haunting, Hearts of, ineffable, leave behind, life eternal, loveliness, magically, mignonette, passed, pervade, pervaded, pervades, rare, real name, real presence, recondite, splendor, splendors, The Haunted, The Haunting, The Sound, touching, vague, vaguer, warmly
«DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
characteristics, conspicuously, dances, daughter, in common, leap, participation, preferably, requiring, sexes, The Sound, tittering, vicious, warmly
«And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey (War) would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests actin»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
actin, bogey, commercial, corrupted, disappeared, long ago, systematically, The Sound
«'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
break even, break wind, by and by, cathedral, charm, dreamy, keyholes, mortals, organ, rush, seemed, The Cathedral, The Sound, Through the Keyhole, whistled, whistles, whistling
«A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
government, health, medicine, now and then, rebellion, Rebellions, sound, the rebellion, The Sound