Whisper Quotes

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. (Errol Flynn)
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
You know love is everything you say a whisper, a word, promises you give. You feel it in the heartbeat of the day. You know this is the way love is. View quote
Enya
One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent. View quote
Julie Garwood
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! View quote
Kris Carr
You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear. View quote
Lora Leigh
O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above the sacred whisper of the pines, Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines, Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs. View quote
Jean Toomer
In a whisper he began begging for-and, as the sun set, received-the concession people always beg for: a little more time. View quote
Zadie Smith
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. View quote
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly. "Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve. (Suzanne Collins)
A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. View quote
Marcel Pagnol
Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, "You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet." View quote
Shane Claiborne
Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life. View quote
Richard Pryor
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?" View quote
Desmond Tutu
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning. View quote
Rod Serling
Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there. View quote
Vanna Bonta
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. View quote
Rita Dove
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One was blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name. (Patrick Rothfuss)
Words of love you whisper soft and true Darling I love you. View quote
Buddy Holly
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. View quote
Edmund Wilson
It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious. View quote
Vladimir Putin
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. View quote
Rudolf Steiner