"We are more anxious to speak than to be heard."
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"I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined."
"Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better."
"I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —"
"I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church."
"Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard."
"I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out."
"Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy."
"I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground."
"Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar."
"Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of."