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This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
— Martin Buber
The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word.
— Robin S. Sharma
The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being.
— Martin Buber
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.
— Charles Osgood
Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.
— A.E. Samaan
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
— E. M. Forster
Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass.Neither one had spoken a word. — Toni Morrison
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
— Iris Chang
The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn
The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.
— Agatha Christie
The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.
— Thomas Cleary
As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
— Gautama Buddha
I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.
— Khaled Hosseini
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
— Timothy Noah
Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.
— Mark Driscoll
The written word endures, the spoken word disappears
— Neil Postman
We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.
— Shane Koyczan
A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
— Thomas Carlyle
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
— M.I.A.
A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
— J. Loren Norris
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
— Marshall McLuhan
There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.
— Teresa Mummert
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
— Ted Chiang
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
— Winston Churchill
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
— Victor Wooten
To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.
— Yann Martel
The gospel is good news - a message to be proclaimed, a truth to be taught, a word to be spoken, and a story to be told.
— Tim Chester
Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.
— George Whitefield
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
— Denise Duhamel
You are the deep innerness of all things,the last word that can never be spoken. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard — Ben Folds
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
— Maria Montessori
The word 'weird' is never spoken or thought of by the Fey, as to them there is nothing very strange when you take it as it is.
— Gabriel Brunsdon
. . . and he had never yet, by so much as a single spoken word, disclosed to her the state of his heart.
— Charles Dickens
I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.
— Loren Mazzacane Connors
What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
The Incarnate Word has been spoken. It calls the soul back to its place of peace that cannot be disturbed and love that will never be disappointed.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
— Gautama Buddha
Although the spoken word is over six million years old,
— Emma Walton Hamilton
The greatest of all humiliations is that disgrace delivered without a word being spoken, or a hand ever raised.
— John Zande
In the textbook of revelation, the Bible, God has spoken verbally; and this spoken word has survived every scratch of the human pen.
— Billy Graham
You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the truth has no twin.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
— N. Scott Momaday
Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.
— Patricia Lynne
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.
— Charles Capps
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity.
— J.I. Packer
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
— Nancy Duarte
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — Walter Savage Landor
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
— Cornelia Funke
Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
— George Dennison Prentice
The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.
— Isaiah
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
— Frank Bough
Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken.
— Edgar A. Guest
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
— Jeanne Moreau
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
— Adolf Hitler
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
— Joyce Maynard
Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
— Euginia Herlihy
You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would absolutely happen to you!
— Sereda Aleta Dailey
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.
— Peter Drucker
Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.
— Pipilotti Rist
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe