Top 100 Hears Quotes
#1. One hears but one does not seek; one takes
one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. The old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire
Don Winslow
#3. Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
Buddy DeFranco
#4. It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
Thomas Brooks
#5. The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.
Pope Benedict XVI
#6. Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie.
Aminatta Forna
#7. The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#8. He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.
James O'Barr
#9. When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.
Matthew Henry
#10. He shouted and he heard his shout and he feared it and shouted back asking it to keep quiet but he didn't pay any head to his shout and shouted with renewed vigor. One shouts the shout one hears.
Aporva Kala
#11. I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
Henry Rollins
#12. When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
Stephen King
#14. When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
Eberhard Weber
#15. Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood ...
Richard Peck
#16. Don't you just want to make something that lives forever? Something that's phenomenal, something that's great, something that's undeniable? That touches the core of every person that hears it?
Jared Leto
#17. When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
#18. I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.
Richelle Mead
#20. I'll text my bounty hunter. But his nuts are so small, it's going be like Horton Hears a Who to find them.
A. Wilding Wells
#22. One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue ... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.
David Hilbert
#23. God loves us faithfully. He loves me and he loves you just as we are, today, right now, right here, no matter where we are or what's going on in our lives. God listens to our words and hears the quiet whispers in our hearts. Each of us is given the opportunity to have a unique relationship with God.
Lizzie Velasquez
#24. I repel all guys. Now I have proof. PROOF.
Wait till Jenna hears. Maybe I need a different deodorant?
She ran her tongue over her teeth. Or toothpaste?
Anne Eliot
#25. We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.
Richard Cecil
#26. When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!
Raphael Ben Levi
#27. There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.
Michael Singer
#28. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#29. In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
#30. The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
George Eliot
#31. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Jesus Christ
#32. for Pop, who sees the stars
and Jude, who hears their music
Eleanor Catton
#33. They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.
Natan Sharansky
#34. Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#35. While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit ... Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.
Valerie Estelle Frankel
#36. A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De Goncourt
#37. One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him thinks, the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not fitting that he should move about now this way, now that.
Xenophanes
#38. Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
Cornelia Funke
#39. If a heart breaks and nobody hears it, how do you know if its really broken?
Angela Richardson
#40. One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.
Roberto Bolano
#41. I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,
and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Jonah peels off his wet shirt and spreads it out on the ground in the sun. For a second, all Hallelujah can see is his bare skin. She blushes and looks away, not turning back until she hears the zip of his jacket closing. Now he's looking at her. She doesn't know if he caught her staring.
Kathryn Holmes
#43. No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.
James Purdy
#44. God is God; He sees and hears All our troubles, all our tears. Soul, forget not, 'mid thy pains, God o'er all for ever reigns.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#45. The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.
Homer
#46. The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
Max Heindel
#47. The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggio
#48. The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
John Scott
#49. He hears but half who hears one party only.
Aeschylus
#50. Your soul has truly important information to share because it sees, hears, feels and knows from a totally expansive perspective.
Catherine Carrigan
#51. God's children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#52. Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.
George Burns
#53. The easiness with which she hears of her faults, is only another effect of the levity with which she commits them.
Fanny Burney
#54. A heartbreak isn't as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is no one really hears except you.
Anonymous
#55. Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte
#56. Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question.
'Are you alone?' he asks quietly.
He hears her breathing so close to his ear.
'Yes.'
'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.
Melina Marchetta
#57. Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
Henry B. Eyring
#58. I'm not staying with him for the pain. It's what he says in his sleep. When he's moaning, he whispers. The cry he utters with a face so full of sorrow.
"So ... "
" ... rry ... "
"I'm sorry ... "
It makes me sad that no one hears his apology.
SHOOWA
#59. What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
Irving Stone
#60. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. - Boromir
J.R.R. Tolkien
#61. Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
Georges Bidault
#62. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Thiruvalluvar
#63. Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#64. The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
Chris Ware
#65. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ... la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la ...
Paul Simon
#66. A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra
Samuel Shem
#67. One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.
Franz Kafka
#68. We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.
Epictetus
#69. The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
David Novak
#70. You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.
John Updike
#71. He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. A true friend not only hears and understands, but shows love in concrete ways. - Linda Jett
Gary Chapman
#73. I know now that the universe hears everything you ask of it. And oftentimes what you will is what you manifest. But it only takes requests in the order they are received, and it doesn't always give you what you want, though you do get a version of exactly what you ask for.
Mark "Fightshark" Miller
#74. I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
Gustave Flaubert
#75. The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.
Riz Ahmed
#76. What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
Oswald Spengler
#77. When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)
Charles De Leusse
#78. My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy
#79. The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.
Simon Blackburn
#80. Your body hears everything your mind says.
Naomi Judd
#81. [I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.
Will Durant
#82. One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)
David M. Carroll
#83. He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
Mark Helprin
#84. I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
#85. And Jaina hears him whispering to her in her dreams, telling her that no one you love ever really has to die--if you don't want them to...All you have to do is hold a place for them in your heart.
Troy Denning
#86. The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the same exact first human words: "We love you and support you on the journey." At their final celebration, everyone hugs them and repeats the phrase again.
Marlo Morgan
#87. My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
Sebastian Arcelus
#88. I mean," I said, "it's not like the lake is a living thing." This was perhaps the worst thing I could have said. He looked suddenly alarmed. He put a hand, sticky as it was with gray sand, over my mouth. "Hush, darlin' girl! Hush! The lake hears your every word and knows your every thought.
Graham Joyce
#89. Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time
Anne Michaels
#90. When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn't know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn't know what it means.
Benjamin Graham
#91. Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.
Florence Welch
#92. You could always count on Amy to give them a laugh. Though to be fair, it was less a laugh and more of a cackle. The writer Alex Baze described it as the sound one hears when running over a raven's foot with a shopping cart. It is, without exaggeration, one of my favorite sounds on earth.
Amy Poehler
#93. I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
Mike Tyson
#94. It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.
Tom Vanderbilt
#95. He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.
Jethro Tull
#96. Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience ... Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#97. But I did it! That's the thing - I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed!
Clifford Odets
#98. He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
Heraclitus
#99. A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.
Arthur Golden
#100. Your ears hear much,
but your heart hears more.
Your eyes see much,
but your mind sees more.
Your toungue says much,
but your soul says more.
Your feet travel much,
but your imagination travels more.
Your hands do much,
but your mind does more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
