Speak Quotes

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

You should always speak your mind, and be bold, and be obnoxious, and do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you to stop it.

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Speak truth to power.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing... I like to think before I speak (softly).

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.