Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

Stephen Kinzer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

Judd Gregg

There's been a working majority for disregarding fiscal discipline, ... But so far, it's been a very small echo chamber.

There was just a relentless echo in the newspaper. This town was going to be rebuilt and be even better.

Janet Fitch

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

Knut Hamsun

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Julian Barnes

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

Kris Kristofferson

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

David Stockman

He operated on the echo principle: He told the president what he wanted to hear.

Harry Nilsson

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

Isaac Marion

In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.

Isaac Marion

Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?

William Shakespeare

By heaven, he echoes me,As if there were some monster in his thoughtToo hideous to be shown.

Mike Cahill

I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically interact with, but are somehow intuitively there. Maybe you can see the ashes of that fire or the echoes of something happening on a domain not-here, whether that be coincidence, whether that be familiarity with somebody who's a stranger.

Oliver Goldsmith

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

Margaret Atwood

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Marshall McLuhan

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

George Santayana

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

George Santayana

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

John Cage

Every something is an echo of nothing

Novalis

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Merrill Markoe

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

Jacob Bronowski

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

John Piper

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

John Piper

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

John Piper

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Rajneesh

Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.

Theodor Adorno

There is no love that is not an echo.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Michael Ondaatje

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

Ray Bradbury

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.