A nervous silence loosens tongues
Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery.
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech. '
I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.
Evil tongues never want a whet.
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.
Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.
We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. . . . if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.