Speak Quotes

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

As a queen I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

I never even dreamt that I'd be in a position to teach other people to speak better.

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

Facts speak louder than statistics.

I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

God speaks through me.