Speak Quotes

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

The fact speak for themselves.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

The shadows cannot speak.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

How many languages do we really speak?

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

Have faith. The Lord can magnify the words you speak and make them mighty. God doesn’t ask you to convert but rather to open your mouths.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.