Speak Quotes

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

Listen to the voice that speaks inside

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

If your body could speak, what would it say?

Text a guy you like right now, "I'm thinking about you." If he says, "mmm are you in bed?" Never speak to him again he's a lifelong moron.

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet knows nothing of rain or wind. I speak for her; I am her own.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Genius speaks only to genius.

Losers must have leave to speak.

Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.