It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

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.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.

When I started Sosa & Associates, there were only 3 million Latinos in the U.S. and only four Hispanic-specialized marketing agencies.I had one little goal for our small San Antonio-based agency: to be the largest Hispanic-specialized agency in the United States. We planned for our success and achieved our goal.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people cant even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.

I don't look back. I look forward.

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

If I can see pain in your eyes, then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes, then share with me your smile.