{"quotes":[{"text":"I wish not to tell you how I feel,I choose silence so that you leave,Kiss me goodbye and set me free...","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["emotions","feel","feelings","free","freedom","leave","liberty","love","loveless","lovelorn","one-sided-love","relationships","silence","speak","spoken","words"],"id":29281,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.","author":"Kevin Crossley-Holland","tags":["history","language","poet","poetry","spoken","word"],"id":52124,"author_id":"Kevin+Crossley-Holland"},{"text":"Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["articles","being","believe","blessings","books","care","caring","charity","concern","confide","confidence","courage","criteria","dedication","dependent","devotion","divine","emotional","emotions","everlasting","express","expression","faith","fulfillment","gossip","help","hope","hoping","humor","improvements","independent","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","intelligent","joy","kindness","knowledge","knowledge-of-self","lie","like","love","material","minds","neglect","new","notable","origin","original","origination","peace","people","place","published","reliable","rumors","safe","satisfaction","science","seek","self","spirit","spiritual","spoken","sure","talk","thankful","things","time","travel","treasure","troubles","truth","wisdom","words","words-to-live-by","world"],"id":74421,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.","author":"Nancy Duarte","tags":["powerful","words","spoken "],"id":99350,"author_id":"Nancy+Duarte"},{"text":"Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["approval","awareness","christianity","cruelty","embarrassment","evolving","forgiving-yourself","growin","growing","guilt","healing","immorality","influence","inspiration","learning","loving-others","loving-yourself","orator","power-of-forgiveness","rebellion","repentance","shame","shared","speeches","spoken","staying-positive","wisdom"],"id":110850,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I’ll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["crazy","feelings","figuratively","insane","know","literally","past","quote","relationship","spoken","thoughts","understand","words","you"],"id":118105,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Every spoken word carries great risk. Therefore, it is better to remain silent if one does not know how to talk. Talking about religion carries religious risks, talking about worldly matters, carries worldly risks. The worldly risk will go away, but religious risk is very heavy; it creates grave obstacles in regards to religion.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["religion","silent","spiritual","spiritual","spoken","world"],"id":132087,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.","author":"James Newman","tags":["children","words","spoken "],"id":150727,"author_id":"James+Newman"},{"text":"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["empowering","silence","speaking-out","spoken"],"id":177127,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.","author":"Baltasar Gracián","tags":["spoken","truth"],"id":249395,"author_id":"Baltasar+Graci%C3%A1n"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}