Speak Quotes
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.
People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.
If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.
In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.
People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.
Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?
I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
