Speak Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

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."

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

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

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

The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.