So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations...
So never give in,ö continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river.
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.
You can say anything if enough people will listen.
Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.
Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make.
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.
If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
When Mike Helton talks, everyone listens. He's a very powerful voice.
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
Yeah, I'd listen. But I haven't called them, and they haven't called me.
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your back, lowering taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, What party is he My friend said, He's a Republican. I said, Then I am a Republican
The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen.
If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.
Most people never listen.
To listen first shut up.
I try to make a point of saying to myself, 'Well listen, it's out of the way. Now you don't have to worry about not making a bogey now. I got off to a slow start and felt sort of mentally I had to grind my way and fight my way back into it.
One attains the highest perfection by devotion to one's natural work. Listen to Me how one attains perfection while engaged in natural work.
Any time the president talks, you listen.
Imam Hussain is logic for all who listen, but we rarely do. We keep finding sins others own, and 'always' skip our own.
Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.
I visualized the reactions of children listening. Stunned silence here So hold the pause for two, three, four. This line is a laugh, more than a giggle, so pause, two, three or their chuckles will drown the next line. I'm lucky to have forty years experience of stage comedy to back me up.
Whoever wants to give another chance to an old guy of 75, I'll be glad to listen, ... I'm not 75, though, I tell you. I may be 50 now, and I probably was 45 when I got here, but I'm ready to go.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
I just told him, 'Listen, plan on me going north, dude.' I said I want to stay. I said I think it will be fine. He was all smiles and that was that.
Those who chant are sanctified. All those who listen are blessed, and those who write save their ancestors.
I told him I wanted him to listen. I told him I appreciated the way he cheered for his teammates at the end of (Wednesday's) game. It meant a lot. I was sorry that the crowd, some of the people booed him. And I told him I just wanted him to let us coach him the rest of the year. He's not going anywhere, and let's move on.
His approach is to not to try and dominate but to participate as one of equals and listen, and that's what he did. At critical times he made his views obviously clear.
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church. . . is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
Listen, James is an easy guy to like, and he's an easy guy to root for, ... If he's getting the better of me, if we happen to play, you know I couldn't wish it for a better person. He deserves support. I just hope it will be a great standard match.
As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I thi
My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 2540). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.
Auto makers are doing a better job of addressing the needs of consumers, particularly in terms of entertainment solutions. Consumers are changing the way the listen to, manage, and discover new music.
It just goes to show you he's focused as far as his offense is concerned. The plays in the outfield, I tried to warn anybody who would listen, it's going to be a work in progress. He got a little lesson today, and if he learns from these things, that's what we want. We don't want him to make the same kind of mistakes two or three times.
I just think they feel so comfortable and so unaccountable that they don't have to listen. I think they're sort of in a bubble. They don't understand what's going on in the community.
The first duty of love is to listen.
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