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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius. — Voltaire

Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally. — Drake

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse. — Salman Rushdie

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie

You of little faith, why did you doubt? — Bible Verses

Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week. — Craig Groeschel

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie

The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, — L.M. Montgomery

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
Colossians 2 2 — Anonymous

I've been writing verses
For 60 years ... phew!
And d'yer know why I did it?
T'was especially for you — John Walter Bratton

Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses — Jerry Bridges

The verses in the Bible are more than good teachings, they possess power. — Francis Chan

Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. — Nick Cave

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED! — Ron Sanders

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark. - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie

A poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses, — Aristotle.

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That? — Dante Alighieri

The verses are meant to help us to bring our awareness back to what's happening in the present moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo. — David Edwards

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing whips my blood like verse. — William Carlos Williams

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses. — John Piper

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names. — Marina Tsvetaeva

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty. — Eminem

We want a god alright, but we humanize him enough to force him to be at our beck-and-call verses responding to the utter magnificence of His call. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! — Samuel Lover

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. — Drake

Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn't happen. — K. Howard Joslin

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses. — Salman Rushdie

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time. — Josh Young

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. — George Carey

... comfort me with apples for I am sick of love. — Bible Verses

To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die. — Salman Rushdie

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from. — Sanober Khan

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. — Jon Bon Jovi

Silence is a deadly weapon — M. Teresa Clayton

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are. — Andre Benjamin

It would be wise to define 'living' as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I'm not. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. — Charles Spurgeon

Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave. — Jeff VanVonderen

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. — Richard Aldington

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. — Eugenio Montale

(For instance, it is a "hate crime" to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.) — Peter Kreeft

My verses, I cannot say poems ... I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. — Dorothy Parker

When fear rules your theology, God is nowhere to be found in your paradigm, no matter how many Bible verses you tack onto it. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The magic fades too fast
the scent of summer never lasts
the nights turn hollow and vast
but nothing remains...nothing lasts. — Sanober Khan

We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something. — LeAnn Rimes

Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses ... white
Wordless Butterflies — Reikan

2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. — Bible Verses

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better. — L. Ron Hubbard

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with. — Michael Moore

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus

The trouble with true faith is that it is 100% sure and the trouble with scientific knowledge is that it isn't! — David Harold Chester

I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs. — Emma Forrest

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. — Bible Verses

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses. — Layzie Bone

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good. — Gloria Gaither

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace

Old things are passed away;
Behold, all things are become new. — Bible Verses

The man is either mad, or he is making verses. — Horace

Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine. — David Mitchell

I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses. — Susie Clevenger

She seemed like a keeper. Housewife material, verses your usual whorehouse type. — J.M. Darhower

The man is either mad or his is making verses.
[Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] — Horace

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. — Russell Baker

They sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low. — Leigh Bardugo

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre. — H.P. Lovecraft

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. — Dejan Stojanovic

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. — Bayard Taylor

Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song? — Anthony Ryan

One mark of good verse is surprise — John Betjeman

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father. — Sophie Arnould

Well, that was enough crazy for one night," she said. "What was that? Greasers verses Socs? — Becca Fitzpatrick

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly. — Orson Scott Card

Leaving Verses Poems Quotes
To say goodbye
Isn't a pain
Unless you're never going ... !
(Tee hee) — John Walter Bratton

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. — Voltaire

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. — Franz Grillparzer

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses. — Horace

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric ... — John Dryden

I love you. I love you,
but I'm turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist. — Frank O'Hara

O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, — William Shakespeare

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is. — Frank Fairfield

Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we've engaged in 'right' living, verses believing that living is a 'right. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Today is the day the Lord has made, be Glad & Enjoy It! — Bible Verses