Consonance Poetry Quotes & Sayings

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity. — Tim LaHaye

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours — Eric Berne

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. — Paulo Coelho

Everything had become song. The curve of the road beneath the clouds here, and there the strokes of dark earth, the green and the gray, the torn pink of clay and gravel under fingertips. The consonance was above all that of the muffled shadow and grass to the depths of sky, where a flutter of cheerful feathers quivered.

In these dreams there are also black walnut trees, and then a forest that opens in a breeze. Nothing. Nothing more than the obstinate sound of wind. — Deborah Heissler

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have. — Elizabeth Benedict

We're both going to hell," Kathleen said as he kissed along the seam of her clenched thighs.
"I've always assumed I would." Devon didn't sound all troubled by the prospect. — Lisa Kleypas

Killing me softly, and I never felt more alive. — Malak El Halabi

A poem must be authentic. It could be flowery, it could have the most brilliant metaphor, it could be bursting with onomatopoeia and alliteration, assonance and consonance, hyperbole and paradox, from every end, it could have daring syntax and clever cacophony, it could have a neat and ordered rhyme scheme ... but, if it loses its authenticity, its ability to convey the very heart and soul of the poet, then all the euphony and cacophony in the world cannot make up for the loss of its identity as a poem. And that is the true cacophony. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

I have had so many bad auditions. — Ethan Hawke

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. — Charley Pride

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."
Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction. — Scott Westerfeld

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. — Daniel H. Pink

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children. — Gloria Furman