Echoes Quotes:

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

- Aaron Tippin

source: Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

topic: Freedom, Believe, Echoes

Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

topic: Laughter, Echoes, Church, Derision, Philistines

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

- Adam Duritz

topic: Echoes, Yelling, World

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

source: "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

topic: Echoes, Keys, One Day, Adelaide

When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.

- Adrienne von Speyr

topic: Father, Son, Echoes, Pointing

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Echoes

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

- Alan Parsons

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Echoes, Black, Magic, Black Boxes

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

- Albert Camus

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Greatness, Echoes, Humanity, Insurrection

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

- Albert Pike

topic: Writing, Echoes, Leaving, Tidal Waves, Tokens

It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: Echoes, Important, Gone

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Echoes, Sound

And more than echoes talk along the walls.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Wall, Echoes

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

topic: Memories, Fire, Echoes

The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

- Alice McDermott

source: "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

topic: Memories, Echoes, Gone, Foibles

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

- Alice Meynell

topic: Echoes, Bird, Too Much, Inarticulate, Mimicry

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Echoes, Applause, Platitudes

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

- Amit Ray

topic: Impact, Echoes, World, Impact On The World

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

topic: Echoes, Mind, Fame

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

- Anne Stevens

topic: Echoes, Sound, Pounds

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Reflection, Men, Echoes

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

- Arnold Bennett

source: Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Writing, Echoes, Oneself, Decisiveness

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

- Arthur Adamov

topic: Heart, Men, Echoes, Solitary Man

When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

- Baroness Orczy

topic: Sadness, Gay, Echoes

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Inspiring, Echoes, Choices, Brighten Your Day

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

- Bela Bartok

topic: Music, Echoes, Years, Hungarians, Barbarity

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

- Bill Delahunt

topic: Real, Echoes, Talking

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.....

- Bill Moyers

topic: Believe, Teaching, Echoes, Futility

Money is an echo of value. It's the thunder to Value's Lightning.

- Bob Burg

topic: Echoes, Lightning, Thunder

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

- Bob Seger

topic: Lying, Echoes, Rock And Roll, Amplifiers

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

- Bob Thaves

topic: Echoes, Credit, Money Talks

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

- Bobby Vinton

topic: Mean, Echoes, Sound

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Echoes, Air, Ears

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

- Brad Leithauser

source: "Why We Should Memorize" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 25, 2013.

topic: Heart, Echoes, Doe

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

- Brian Eno

topic: Nature, Echoes, Tree, Itchy, Ricochet

Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

- Bruce Chatwin

topic: Echoes, Tyranny

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

Though they play an important role in the early stages, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex, or restrictive. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. When attacked, your response is not technique 1, 2, 3, 4, 5--rather you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. React as when I throw something to you, you catch it. Nothing else.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Moving, Echoes, Play, Martial Arts Inspirational

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Echoes, Church, Doctrine

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Echoes, Soul, Doubt, Tantalizing

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

- C.J. Sansom

source: C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.132, Penguin

topic: Echoes, Childhood, Mind

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Writing, Echoes, Poetry, Inspirational Dance, Great Poetry

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Hope, Echoes, Ties

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

- Carol Zaleski

topic: Echoes, Play, Survival, Purgatory, Shakespeare's Plays

Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

- Catherine Maria Fanshawe

topic: Ocean, Flower, Echoes, Delicate Flower

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Ideas, Echoes, Vibrations

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

- Charles Angoff

topic: Symphony, Echoes, History

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Memories, Distance, Echoes, Collective Memory, Legends And Myths

The old echoes are long in dying.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

topic: Echoes, Long, Dying

A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

- Charles Robert Maturin

source: Charles Robert Maturin (2008). “Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Depression, Echoes, Hands, Delirious

Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.

- Cheryl Mendelson

topic: Opportunity, Thinking, Echoes, Rhythm Of Life, Savoring

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the 'science is settled' camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.

- Colin Robinson

topic: Believe, Echoes, Views

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

- Colleen McCullough

source: Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.365, Head of Zeus

topic: Sleep, Blessing, Echoes, Respite

Joy is the echo of God's life within us.

- Columba Marmion

topic: Echoes, Joy, Joy Within

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

- Czeslaw Milosz

topic: Art, Echoes, Poetry

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

- Dahlia Lithwick

topic: Past, Echoes, Years, Cadre, Personal Connection

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Heart, Space, Echoes, Music Speaks

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

- Dakotsu Iida

topic: Nature, Clouds, Echoes, Woodpeckers

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

- Daniel Levitin

topic: Art, Echoes, Color

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

source: "The Sea-Limits". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

topic: Beach, Echoes, Sea

Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

source: 'Ballade des dames du temps jadis' from 'Le Grand Testament' (1461) (translation by D. G. Rossetti)

topic: Men, Echoes, Years, Flora

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

- Daphne du Maurier

topic: Past, Echoes, Brain

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

- Dar Williams

topic: Time, Kindness, Echoes

The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.

- David Brock

topic: Character, Echoes, Media, Character Assassination, President Clinton

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

- David Toop

topic: Ocean, Echoes, Order

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

- Dejan Stojanovic

topic: Echoes, Voice, Emptiness

Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.

- Denise Levertov

topic: Eye, Past, Echoes, Clamor, Fanfare

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Children, Echoes, Curves

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Echoes, Color, Faithful, Supple

I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

- DJ Jazzy Jeff

topic: Echoes, Quality, Transition

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

- Dylan McDermott

topic: Believe, Echoes, Museums

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Art, Thinking, Echoes, Lighthouse, Sentinels

Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Dream, Men, Echoes, True Woman

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Echoes, Events, Half

There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.

- Eric Sloane

source: Eric Sloane (1956). “American Yesterday. [With illustrations.]”, New York : W. Funk

topic: School, Echoes, Yesterday

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

- Evelyn Glennie

topic: Echoes, Brain, Dolphins

A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.

- Fady Joudah

topic: Character, Epic, Echoes, Indomitable, Epic Poems

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

- Fanny Crosby

source: Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.36, Hendrickson Publishers

topic: Angel, Grieving, Echoes, Descending, My Angel

Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Stars, Kissing, Echoes

All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Mean, Fate, Echoes

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

- Francis Alexander Durivage

topic: Beautiful, Echoes, Devil, She Is Beautiful

"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

- Frank Drake

topic: Stars, Echoes, Perfect, Extraterrestrial

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

- Fred Allen

topic: Laughter, Echoes, Years, Limbo

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

- Frederick Tennyson

source: Frederick Tennyson, Sappho, Alcaeus (1890). “The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus”, London Macmillan 1890.

topic: Echoes, Forever, Answers

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

- Gelsey Kirkland

topic: Taken, Heart, Echoes

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

- Gene Wolfe

topic: Echoes, Half, Lost

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.

- George D. Prentice

topic: Time, Echoes, Air, Another Year

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

- George Eliot

topic: Music, Law, Echoes

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

- George Eliot

topic: Echoes, Soul, Immortality

Translation is at best an echo.

- George Henry Borrow

source: George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.151

topic: Echoes, Language, Translations

If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

- George Henry Lewes

topic: Philosophy, Real, Echoes

The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

- George Orwell

topic: Blow, Moon, Echoes, Dynamite, Marxism

Art is dedicated echo.

- George Sandys

topic: Art, Echoes, Dedicated

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

- George Santayana

topic: Echoes, Heaven, Sound

Art is a delayed echo.

- George Santayana

topic: Art, Echoes, Art Is

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

- George William Curtis

topic: Echoes, Journalism, Should

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

- Giotto di Bondone

topic: Travel, Echoes, Rome

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

- Giuseppe Mazzini

source: Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr

topic: Echoes, Voice, World, Spiritual Music, Harmonious

The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

- Glenn Greenwald

topic: Home, Echoes, Views, Passwords, Snowden

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

- Golda Meir

topic: War, Winning, Echoes

What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.

- Gordon Clark

topic: Echoes, Rome, Age

As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

- Gunter Brus

source: "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

topic: Boys, Echoes, May

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

- Guy Finley

source: FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Nov 24, 2016

topic: Struggle, Past, Echoes, Past Events

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

- Harold Pinter

source: Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

topic: Fall, Echoes, Silence, Stratagem, Sly

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Dream, Song, Echoes

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

- Harry Nilsson

topic: Echoes, Insanity, Mind

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

- Helen Garner

topic: Echoes, Age, Looks, Destructiveness

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

- Henri Barbusse

source: Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.65, 1st World Publishing

topic: Echoes, People, Looks, Lucidity

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

- Henri Bergson

topic: Laughter, Philosophical, Echoes

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

- Henri Bergson

topic: Laughter, Echoes, Mountain

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

- Henry Anatole Grunwald

topic: Echoes, Air, Faults

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Loss, Echoes, Air, Hearing Loss

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Pain, Echoes, Silence

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

topic: Prayer, Echoes, Answers

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

- Hisham Matar

source: Hisham Matar (2007). “In the Country of Men”, p.167, Penguin UK

topic: Grief, Echoes, Want, Hollow

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

- Hugh Nibley

topic: Reflection, Echoes, Different

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Children, Echoes, Forever

Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?

- Isaac Marion

topic: Echoes, People, Waiting

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

- Ivan Panin

topic: Love, Echoes, Pumps

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Voice, Dwelling, Echoes, Choir Singing, Silmarillion

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: Believe, Names, Echoes

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

- Jamaica Kincaid

source: Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

topic: Mother, Echoes, Feels

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Echoes, Profound, Desire

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

- James Gleick

topic: Communication, Writing, Echoes, Evanescence

Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood.  As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.  Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe.  Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds.  Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.

- James Jackson Jarves

source: James Jackson Jarves (1855). “Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting”, p.10

topic: Art, Civilization, Echoes

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

- Jane Hirshfield

topic: Echoes, Way

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'

- Jarreth J. Merz

topic: Believe, Echoes, Want, Gunshots

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity.

- Jay Paterno

topic: Echoes, Years, Two

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

topic: Echoes, Advice, Feelings

You don't have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can't talk me out of them either. I love you" Her smile was wry. "Deal with it.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Love You, Echoes, Feelings, Her Smile, Wry

Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

- Jennifer Rush

topic: Crush, Dream, Echoes, That Feeling You Get

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

source: FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 08, 2011

topic: Echoes, News, Static, Namesake

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

- Jill Clayburgh

topic: Echoes, People, Film

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

- Joë Bousquet

topic: Wind, Echoes, Body, Immense

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

- Joe Perry

topic: Children, Echoes, Careers, Right Stuff

Every something is an echo of nothing

- John Cage

topic: Echoes

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

- John Frederick Boyes

source: John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

topic: Heart, Echoes, Emptiness, Hollowness

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

- John G. Shedd

topic: Inspirational Life, Echoes, Sound

I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.

- John Godfrey Saxe

source: John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195

topic: Echoes, Novices, Matter

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

- John Maeda

topic: Echoes, Car, Design, Videogame

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

- John Milton

topic: Echoes, Nymphs, Unseen, Airy

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

- John Wyndham

source: John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

topic: Past, Echoes, Unknown Future

He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

- Jonathan Maberry

topic: Hurt, Children, Echoes, Lost Souls

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Character, Humility, Echoes

The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some "Nessun Dorma" [from Puccini 's Turandot] or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

- Josh Groban

topic: Stars, Echoes, Rocks, Pearl Jam, Singing In The Shower

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

- Julia McNair Wright

source: Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

topic: Past, Echoes, Mind, Phonograph

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

- Julian Jaynes

source: Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Echoes, Mind, World, Analog, Spatial

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

- Julio Cortazar

topic: Memories, Echoes, Expectations, Replica

Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it.

- Jun Mochizuki

topic: Fighting, Echoes, Pandora Hearts

Echo is a servant of the Nightray house.

- Jun Mochizuki

topic: Echoes, House, Servant

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

- Justine Larbalestier

topic: Echoes, Once Upon A Time, Fiction, Justine

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

- Kate Mosse

topic: Writing, Echoes, Mind, Deep Sea

We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

- Ken Burns

topic: Wise, Past, Echoes

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

- Kenny Smith

topic: Philosophy, Echoes, Different, Intervals, Hegel

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

topic: Echoes, Media, Hands

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

- Knut Hamsun

topic: Echoes, Secret, Able

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

- Kool Moe Dee

topic: Echoes, Listening, Tape

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

- Kris Kristofferson

topic: Echoes, Forbidden Love, Forever, Let Me Go, Lonesome

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

- Laird Barron

topic: Writing, Dark, Echoes

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

- Larry Crabb

source: Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.112, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Leadership, Echoes, Giving

No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

- Lawrence Durrell

topic: Dark, Echoes, Cities, Ominous

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

- Leland Bell

topic: Echoes, Want, Paint

Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.

- Leymah Gbowee

topic: Echoes, Voice, Answers

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: Moon, Echoes, Hair, Vagabonds

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Echoes, Doe

The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

- Louis Simpson

source: Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.124, BOA Editions, Ltd.

topic: Lonely, Echoes, Discovery

Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

- Louise Glück

topic: Loneliness, Heart, Echoes, Almonds, Predecessors

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

topic: Song, Expression, Echoes, Old Song

I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Kids, Frustration, Echoes

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Past, Echoes, Darkness

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Past, Voice, Echoes

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

- Margaret Heffernan

topic: Thinking, Echoes, Collaboration

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

- Margaret Heffernan

topic: Thinking, Echoes, Partners, Collaborators

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

- Mark Z. Danielewski

topic: Space, Echoes, Silence, House Of Leaves

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Winning, Echoes, Mind

Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.

- Marlena De Blasi

topic: Baby, Echoes, Arrogance, Cried

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

topic: Loss, Echoes, Identity, Moments Of Clarity

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

- Maurice Blanchot

topic: Writing, Order, Echoes, Decisiveness

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

- Merrill Markoe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Echoes, Childhood, Training

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Sports, Echoes, World, General Manager

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Reality, Men, Echoes, Approving

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

- Mohsin Hamid

source: "This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.

topic: Echoes, Empathy, Persons

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Book, Echoes, Ambiguity

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

- Morihei Ueshiba

topic: Names, Echoes, Bows

There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.

- Nalini Singh

topic: Echoes, Max, Sometimes

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Jobs, Echoes, Scientist

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

- Nicolas Gomez Davila

topic: Echoes, Public Opinion, Opinion

Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life. Without it, you life will echo emptiness. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during any hardship, love will shine through.

- Nikita Koloff

topic: Echoes, Shining, Important, Searching For Love

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

- Norman Douglas

topic: Education, Echoes, States

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

- Og Mandino

topic: Echoes, Today, Firsts

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Echoes, Sorrow

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Fear, Heart, Echoes

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

- Ouida

topic: Life, Echoes, World, Cried

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

- Ovid

topic: Echoes, Nymphs, Babbling

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: "Cocktail Time". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1958.

topic: Writing, Men, Echoes, Well Said, Rose Petals

Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: Country, Echoes, Ariel, Sharon

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: Heart, Echoes, Dickens

No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.

- Rachilde

topic: Heart, Sacrifice, Echoes

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Live Life, Voice, Echoes

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Echoes, Mind, Consonance, Traverse