Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, 'I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.'
Oprah Winfrey
I meet people at book signings who whisper to me, 'We are trying the spells.' And I think: Well, don't bother, because I know I just made them up. They don't work.
Harry Potter
I can say it for them -- I'm not talking about the refs, so you can't fine me. Somebody may not be my friend; I'm tired of whispering.
Marcellus Wiley
The whisper told most often.
Peter Bogdanovich
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Real Live Preacher
The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid sudden movements, such as walking to the refrigerator [during] a possible birdie putt.
Peter Alfano
Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'
David Spade
I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
David Brenner
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
Barry Neil Kaufman
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.
Rudolf Steiner
Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.
Wilfred Owen
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
With a breaking pitch whispering across the outside corner.
Michael Kay
It's amazing what the whisper of gold will do.
Chuck Blanchard
The whole place was silent. You couldn't even hear a whisper.
Anabella Hedman
The lure of money is greater than ever. The minute they run a fast time, everyone's whispering in their ear, telling them they ought to go pro. And every athlete wants to do it.
Renaldo Nehemiah
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over the last week or so I have been very disappointed and very dismayed that one of the candidates has started a whisper campaign against Judge [Ron[ Harris and myself, questioning our Christian beliefs. Those of you know me and how we raise our family and that we have very close Christian ties; we have not campaigned on it and I will not campaign on it.
Rick Neudorff
I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope..
Meredith Grey
Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.
Chuck Berry
[Speak softly]Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.
Leonard Nimoy
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
Tibetan Proverb
His voice is his great weapon. It is not an orator's voice. It is husky, and sometimes it fades to a whisper. Meanwhile, it is extraordinarily intimate. Mr Reagan does not speak to audiences; he speaks to individuals.
John Corry
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
The Beatles
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
Lydia M. Child
I don't recall any hush-hush, whisper-whisper going on.
Mike Wagers
I feel more hopeful than I felt in a long time. This makes me feel that maybe I can go home again. Voting is the only time we get to shout. Other times we're just whispering. I hollered today.
Gilda Burbank
Say you want to play pick-up basketball or something. If they know you're Arabic, they won't pick you. They whisper, make funny faces. Stuff like that. But you learn to deal with it.
Shadi Ayoub
Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.
Bill Keller
They are the early indicators of whether water is polluted or not. It's like they're a whisper in your ear.
Dick Bronson
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
Jonathan Coe
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Lord John Russell
Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.
Douglas Altabef
It's significant to me that this little whisper of an action could shake and rattle the country, ... We would have no excuse not to come.
Brian Higgins
IF you're out in public, getting tactile can up the anticipation factor no end. Touch your partner's thigh, brush their leg 'accidentally' under the table and whisper naughty suggestions. It may sound cliched, but it really does work.
Denise Knowles
Ah! you are so great, and I am so small,I tremble to think of you, World, at all;And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,A whisper inside me seemed to say,"You are more than the earth, though you are such a dot;You can love and think, and the earth cannot!"
William Brighty Rands
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Errol Flynn
Tell me it's wrong to call up Steve Pederson's house at 3 in the morning, breathe heavily into the phone and then whisper, 'I'm going to kill your children.
Ben Schwartz
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.
Penelope Cruz
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
Mary Stewart
A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
Marcel Pagnol
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
Adam Sandler
The theater is designed for the actors' voices. Now an actor can whisper anywhere on the stage and be heard.
Richard Corley
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
Andrei A. Gromyko
A lot of them try to intimidate me. They whisper in my ear as they skate by, 'Your mine.' I've learned to ignore it.
Allie Woods
I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.
Chico Marx
I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
Audie Murphy
You know love is everything you say;a whisper, a word, promises you give.You feel it in the heartbeat of the day.You know this is the way love is.
Alex Langwenya
The old / like children / talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Eugene O'neill
Cisco certainly outdid the whisper numbers, so to speak. It is pretty apparent that estimates will be getting raised going forward.
Erik Suppiger
With a public loss like that, the issues are very different because you are in the media. People that don't know you know. You can't hide. You get no relief anywhere. I'm sure in the supermarket people are whispering. It makes it very different. The fact there are kids involved is always very tragic.
Eileen Schmidt
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson
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