Speak Quotes

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

I speak to women's groups, Chambers of Commerce, manufacturing organizations. Just did the Mike Huckabee Show. I do about two speaking engagements a month. I still enjoy travelling.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

In fact, it's in my interest to love digital recording, and I just spent a ton on a new digital recording system, so I speak from a place of heavy investment in both sides.

Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy.

I paid my bill. Let me speak to your supervisor!

Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.

People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

I understand Spanish better than I speak it.

There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

Made­lyne, I would like to speak to you in pri­vate after din­ner." "Speak to me about what?" Made­lyne de­manded with a dis­grun­tled look. "Men and their horses," Dun­can told her

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.