Echoing Quotes

#1. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her. - Author: Kate Williams

#3. Amy closed her eyes, an internal groan echoing inside her head. "Your one password is B-zero-N, J-zero-V-one? Kill me now. - Author: Rosie Claverton

#4. Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book - Author: Charles Dickens

#5. Like memories in cold decay,
Transmissions echoing away,
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky.. - Author: Linkin Park

#6. The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert air, wondering whether to tell the world the wonders he had seen, and, if so, how. Amazing things. Other-worldly things. Also a set of car keys. And one brown sock. - Author: Ron Brackin

#7. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. - Author: Bergen Evans

#8. I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God - Author: Rumi

#9. Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream. - Author: Sam Whitehouse

#10. And, echoing Jerott, 'So why in hell have you come?' Philippa's gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end.

'To look after the baby,' she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second's blank pause, Francis Crawford flung back his damp head and laughed. - Author: Dorothy Dunnett

#11. For a moment, she wasn't Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea's voice echoing in her ears. - Author: Jay Kristoff

#12. Hurting with words is easy," Mairy replied, echoing Leesha's earlier statement, "it's healing with them what's hard. - Author: Peter V. Brett

#13. though it was such a bizarre world, filled only with the echoing voices of people who had apparently already agreed with each other. - Author: Zadie Smith

#14. My brother is still fighting, and his screams slice right through me. I know then that I will hear them over and over again, echoing in every hour of every day until I am dead or I make it right. I know it. - Author: Sabaa Tahir

#15. What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. - Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

#17. With their unspoken words of love still echoing in her ears and aching in her heart, Kayn knew she had to be brave. He was gone. This was where their roads separated, right at the beginning. - Author: Kim Cormack

#18. Forsaking all other thoughts, he rutted into her, in a fashion more animal than human. His eruption he held fast within, so that she squirmed against the sensation before accepting her own fall into oblivion, her walls pulsing to an echoing rhythm.

from The Gentlemen's Club - Author: Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#19. I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep. - Author: Annie Fisher

#20. The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police. - Author: Jan Neruda

#21. Dinted
dimpled wimpled
his mind wandered down echoing corridors of
assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the
point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words. - Author: Aldous Huxley

#22. Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children. - Author: Dean Koontz

#23. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. - Author: Mervyn Peake

#24. She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square. - Author: Esi Edugyan

#25. It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. - Author: J. Gresham Machen

#26. Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, their news. Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book.
And I had to call him Maxim. - Author: Daphne Du Maurier

#27. His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices. - Author: Cody McFadyen

#28. Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to. - Author: Richard Leakey

#29. And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past. - Author: Walter Salles

#30. This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act. - Author: Erika Johansen

#31. The external world disappears; all she hears is her own sound; she is a cave filled with a great echoing voice. When she is done she closes her eyes for a moment, returning to herself. - Author: Pamela Erens

#32. Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. - Author: Franz Kafka

#33. Oh better far those echoing hells
Half-threaten'd in the pealing bells
Than that this 'I' should cease to be - - Author: John Betjeman

#34. All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall. - Author: Tom Perrotta

#35. My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions. - Author: Harold Bloom

#36. He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. There might be other forms of life who were receiving the noise and trying to interpret the tones. - Author: Jane Hamilton

#37. An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence. - Author: Mary Renault

#38. She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility. - Author: E. M. Forster

#39. Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world. - Author: William Mountford

#40. Swinging the spatula, he smacks Leo in the head, the loud thwack echoing though the kitchen. "Shit!" Leo winces, "What the hell was that for?"
"The table isn't set," Lorenzo says. "What are we, animals?"? - Author: J.M. Darhower

#41. And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen. - Author: Henry Timrod

#42. The voice of a rebeck echoed from somewhere behind him. The music echoed and echoed until it entered his head, still echoing. It suffused his body and he felt himself to be large, very large, not a child at all. And his skin was not his own. - Author: Frank Herbert

#43. The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard. - Author: Stanley Goldyn

#44. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. - Author: Charlotte Eriksson

#45. For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb. - Author: Gustave Flaubert

#46. I should have felt overwhelmed by emotion. I should have felt something. But despite my tears, I was numb. As if that black hole that would envelop my husband's body forever was really inside me. I was the black hole. Hollow, echoing, empty. - Author: Ellen J. Green

#47. Every "I hate you" echoing from her chest was followed by an "I love you" from his lips. Every time she begged him to let go, he told her he would be there forever. His hold was strong, his arms familiar, but it did nothing to take away her pain. - Author: J.M. Darhower

#48. Into the stillness come the voices of his masters, echoing from one side of his head while memory speaks from the other. - Author: Anthony Doerr

#49. Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. - Author: Alan Watts

#50. The nearest we approach God ... is as creative beings. The poet , by echoing the primary imagination , recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them ... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action . - Author: R.S. Thomas

#51. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? - Author: John Milton

#52. I can't handle my own voice, even hearing it echoing on a cell phone. It's horrible. - Author: Jerusha Hess

#53. She was trying to whisper, but she might as well have yelled under an echoing bridge. - Author: Jacqueline Wilson

#54. We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#55. Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere. - Author: J.M. Coetzee

#56. And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same. - Author: J.K. Rowling

#57. Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. - Author: Bradley Chicho

#58. The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green. - Author: William Blake

#59. First time I saw you, after I got over hating you, I knew," he said, echoing Ty's words, "I knew I'd fall in love with you - Author: Abigail Roux

#60. Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green. - Author: William Blake

#61. You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school.
"Lots," he said.
-Rose (Roza) to Dimitri - Author: Richelle Mead

#62. Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. - Author: Sheldon B. Kopp

#63. Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere. - Author: Thomas C. Oden

#64. He steps closer, still not touching me, but so close that I can hear my own heartbeat echoing against the hard breadth of his chest. You are. - Author: J. Kenner

#65. And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat)
Only if you're stupid. I'm two hundred years old and I haven't turned yet. You just have to learn to hum a lot so you don't hear their bullshit echoing in your head. (Damien) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#66. Days XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps - Author: Charles Dickens

#67. She throws her jeans at me and dives into the pellucid lake, slicing through the water almost without a splash. A church bell rings out in the distance, echoing in the quiet aftermath of Everly's quick jump into the unexpected. - Author: Rebecca Paula

#68. XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still - Author: Charles Dickens

#69. And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt.
It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on and on and on trough the generations, even after that person was long long dead. - Author: Chris Beckett

#70. Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. - Author: Terry Tempest Williams

#71. Yes! In the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live ALONE, - Author: Barbara Pym

#72. Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound - wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm - the tango, obviously. - Author: Chloe Thurlow

#73. All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space. - Author: Cormac McCarthy

#74. Dearest friend, do you not see All that we perceive Only reflects and shadows forth What our eyes cannot see. Dearest friend, do you not hear In the clamor of everyday life Only the unstrung echoing fall of Jubilant harmonies. Vladimir Soloviev, Russian Gnostic and philosopher, 1892 - Author: J. Lincoln Fenn

#75. In the enormous whale-belly of steel and stone carved out to form the long-enduring old opera house, Rick Deckard found an echoing, noisy, slightly miscontrived rehearsal taking place. - Author: Philip K. Dick

#76. For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual. - Author: William Carlos Williams

#77. Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by the world, all hearts echoing the others in the song of one enormous heart. - Author: Randall Silvis

#78. I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late. - Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

#79. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. - Author: Seamus Heaney

#80. There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man's empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ. - Author: Steven J. Lawson

#81. I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield. - Author: Laura Frantz

#82. Zane swallowed hard as he slid his hand to take Ty's and lace their
fingers together. "Are you feeling this, too?" he asked, echoing what they'd
asked each other months ago, only to have it pushed aside. But not forgotten. - Author: Abigail Roux

#83. The ship shudders as we make the leap, passing into grimspace. Pleasure spikes through me, as if I'm taking a hit of my favorite chem. It sings through my veins, echoing the mad whorl of colors outside the view screen. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's like entering the heart of a dying star. - Author: Ann Aguirre

#84. Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day. - Author: Laurie Nadel

#85. Kavita's arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha's piercing wail echoing inside. - Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#86. And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes. - Author: Arthur C. Clarke

#87. Celaena's scream was still echoing through the passageway as Chaol leapt off the stairs and hurtled through the misty portal after Fleetfoot. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#88. Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves. - Author: Jerome K. Jerome

#89. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. - Author: Robert Breault

#90. Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut
and your heart
in the opening scenes and never lets go. - Author: Jeffery Deaver

#91. The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me. - Author: Armand Hammer

#92. Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly. - Author: Ilana Mercer

#93. To the alliance,' agreed Alexon, the words echoing back from those seated around the fire. To the alliance. Charls saw Lamen lift his cup and incline it towards the Prince, who echoed his gesture, the two of them smiling a little. Lamen, - Author: C.S. Pacat

#94. In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one. - Author: Mahmud Shabistari

#95. This I have known, and these have come again
With echoing happiness in heart and brain;
Time standing still, surrendering to me
Beauty that otherwise would cease to be. - Author: William Kean Seymour

#96. Somewhere at the back of my head I heard a click, tiny and irrevocable. Memory magnifies it to a wrenching, echoing crack, but the truth is that it was the very smallness that made it so terrible. - Author: Tana French

#97. It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went. - Author: Robyn

#98. I missed you, she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing. - Author: Thomm Quackenbush

#99. Your loss, Elliot said to both of them, and shut the door.
That was love: Elliot couldn't command it, couldn't demand it. He could only leave the chill echoing place where it was not. - Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

#100. Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices. - Author: Kim Hyesoon