Speak Quotes

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are repressive are often at threat.

Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.