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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
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
I've been writing versesFor 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 fastthe scent of summer never lasts
the nights turn hollow and vast
but nothing remains...nothing lasts. — Sanober Khan
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
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
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
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
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
One mark of good verse is surprise
— John Betjeman
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 QuotesTo 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
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