Speak Quotes

Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

I don't have to talk. My record speaks for itself.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

My work speaks for itself.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!

Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!

When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!

We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly and carried a big stick; Donald Trump speaks loudly and carries a big shtick.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and psychic wounds.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.