Top 37 Control The Tongue Quotes
#1. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust
Pope Clement I
#2. I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.
Mona Eltahawy
#3. I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.
Paul Smoker
#4. Terry recalled far better days when she'd risen bright and early every morning.... Days before darkness had closed in and refused to leave....
Dawn M. Turner
#5. You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.
Bob Dylan
#6. Fear,' he whispered. 'There is nothing quite like it. I love how it looks, I love how it feels, I love how it smells. And I especially love the sound of it.' I felt his tongue on my cheek. 'I even love the taste of it
B.A. Paris
#7. I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Oren Peli
#8. You must learn to control the filth of your tongue, my son. It will send you to hell.
James Clavell
#9. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.
Sivananda
#10. The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
Max Muller
#11. Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.
Annie Besant
#12. The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality.
Billy Graham
#13. He tucks me in and says good night but I catch his hand and hold him there. A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.
Suzanne Collins
#14. You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Yannick Noah
#15. So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.
Zora Neale Hurston
#16. A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of
his mind.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#18. I owe a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay and also I owed a debt to everyone who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't got to be a person yet
John Green
#19. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards ... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.
David Eisenhower
#21. It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.
Christine Kenneally
#22. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.
G.B. Gordon
#23. SMALL BOY: Where do animals go when they die? SMALL GIRL: All good animals go to heaven, but the bad ones go to the Natural History Museum. - Caption to a drawing by E.H. Shepard, PUNCH, 1929 SIMON
Sarah R. Shaber
#25. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
Toni Sorenson
#26. You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.
Billy Graham
#27. For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
Kelis
#28. The apostle James tells us that a man who can control his tongue can control the rest of his body as well. This goes double for the man who is putting what the tongue does into a more permanent setting.
Douglas Wilson
#29. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.
Pete Seeger
#30. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#31. Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett
#32. If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.
Orison Swett Marden
#33. If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
Robert Crippen
#34. A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
Kabir
#35. Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#37. Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
Bernice L. McFadden
