Speak Quotes

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

I want to see unity. I want to see peace. I want people to be free to speak, be educated. I want people to be able to feed themselves.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

Writers speak stench.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.

Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

Let the work speak for itself.

People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.