Speak Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.