#tongue

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#any #cheek #credit #deserve #i

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car. ↗

— Bode Miller

#bent #car #cheek #coach #cream

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#beautiful #clear #i #language #moves

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ↗

— George Bancroft

#disappointed #nine #out #person #ten

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#down #english #friend #i #i am

An aversion came over me that we feel for all the mutilated. Why is that so, do you think? Because they put us in mind of what we would rather forget: how easily, at the stroke of a sword or a knife, wholeness and beauty are forever undone? Perhaps. But toward you I felt a deeper revulsion. I could not put out of mind the softness of the tongue, its softness and wetness, and the fact that it does not live in the light; also how helpless it is before the knife, once the barrier of teeth has been passed. The tongue is like the heart, in that way, is it not? ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#heart #tongue #beauty

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#own #praise #reputation #sign #sinking

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#heart #killed #relationship #tongue #dreams

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#deceiving #employed #injustice #made #may