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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence
Fall
Hundred
Oak
Unnoticed
Echoes
Forest
Sown
Acorn
Breeze
Whole
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Music
Best
Book
Thought
Our
Charm
Echoes
Contains
Hearts
Just
Dwells
Which
Tones
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto di Bondone
City
Echoes
Yearning
Rome
Illusions
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck
Alone
Thoughts
Heart
Human Being
Mind
Will
Own
Live
Other
Tries
Finds
Echoes
Only
Inspiration
He
Another
Answer
Does
His
Hears
Person
Human
Being
Succeed
Who
Away
Shrinks
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
Adam Duritz
Life
You
World
Sometimes
Big
Idiot
Down
Spend
All Your Life
Some
Seems
Echoes
Like
Nonsense
Hear
Yelling
Hole
Shouting
Your
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Rowan Williams
God
Marriage
Echoes
Absolute
Between
Partners
Because
Female
Faithfulness
Covenant
His
Male
Different
Place
Persons
Speaks
Radically
Unique
Chosen
I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.
Jennifer McMahon
Spiritual
Past
Believe
Ghosts
Kind
Some
Echoes
Least
Persistent
Places
Certain
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Education
Echoes
Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.
Amos Oz
Music
You
Writing
Bit
Evoke
Inside
Some
Echoes
Like
Cathedral
Empty
Huge
Very
Modern
May
Hebrew
Chamber
Playing
Careful
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno
You
Strange
Quality
Trees
Back
Those
Echo
Echoes
Because
Effect
Off
Itchy
Forest
Very
Get
Many
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
Eliza Cook
Heart
Memory
Old
Sweet
Echoes
How
Tune
Start
Plays
Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.
Elizabeth Warren
Family
Situation
Unfair
Community
Difficult
Echoes
Economic
Throughout
Economic Situation
Economy
Practices
Ultimately
Injury
Servicing
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Frederick Tennyson
Thought
First
Live
Profit
Lasting
Would
Hath
Be The First
Echoes
Thy
Answers
Forever
Stone
Senseless
Thee
Should
Thing
Tongue
My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.
Gene Luen Yang
Culture
Experience
Word
Before
Enough
Approach
Local
Somehow
Echoes
Supermarket
Indirect
Through
Know
Said
Quite
Chinese
Chinese Culture
English
Even
Switch
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
Helen Garner
Woman
Age
Youth
Own
Young
Destructive
Destructiveness
Disturbing
Echoes
Look
Hear
Behaviour
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
Jacques Derrida
Too Much
Believe
Too
Visible
Alive
Claim
Echoes
Nevertheless
Name
Most
Am
Opponents
Texts
Which
Inaccessible
Little
Much
Resolute
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
Jill Clayburgh
People
Own
Films
See
Seem
Echoes
Always
Lives
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
Margaret Atwood
Later
Immediate
Favor
Echoes
Poems
Poets
Tend
Conceal
Like
Lines
Modern
Middle
Rhymes
Placed
Placing
Them
Avoid
Many
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.
Neil Turok
You
Inflation
Universe
Waves
Would
Echoes
Through
Existence
Sprung
Itself
Get
Pattern
Then
Exponentially
Fill
Traveling
Gravitational
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
Roy Harper
Music
Age
Listening
Before
Young
Bits
Classical
Echoes
Stuff
Like
Well
Hall
Child
Young Child
Really
Radio
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen King
People
Saw
City
City People
Seeing
Echoes
Having
Results
Tendency
New
Particularly
York
New York
New York City
New Yorkers
After
Happened
Breathed
Apocalypse
Who
Keep
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
Tariq Ali
History
Go Away
Rarely
Echoes
Never
Go
Repeats
Itself
Away
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'
Tim Cahill
Success
Music
History
Song
First
Band
Down
Tribute
Embraced
Magazine
Echoes
Through
Name
Call
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Cultural
Itself
Roll
Same
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Stones
Rolling Stones
Nationwide
Decided
Dylan
Bob
Cut
Bob Dylan
Themselves
Muddy
English
Serious
Phenomenon
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