Speak Quotes

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

Peace is the language we must speak.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

The way that we make dumb decisions and discriminatory decisions is by employing stereotypes about groups of people. We don't see people as fully human when other people speak for them.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

God speaks as softly as he can and as loud as he has to.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

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.

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.

We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.

Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Speak with the language of love.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.