Speak Quotes

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there."

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

Once the world sees this Synagogue of Satan as it really is and knows the players, they fear what will happen to them. The world will turn against them and that is happening now as we speak.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as who they are. They can't be reduced to objects of derision.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.