Speak Quotes

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

My actions speak louder than my words.

Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.