Quotes about speak

Michael Jordan -

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

Lysander Spooner -

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

James Denton -

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

Anatoly Chubais -

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Max Heindel -

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.

Paracelsus -

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Teresa Heinz -

I have a very personal feeling about how special America is, and I know how precious freedom is. It is a sacred gift, sanctified by those who have lived it and those who have died defending it. My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated,' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish.

Thurgood Marshall -

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Cornel West -

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

Friedrich Engels -

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Geoffrey Fisher -

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

William Hague -

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

Roger Ebert -

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Cara Delevingne -

Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Express your emotions in a multidimensional manner. Don’t just speak act! Don’t just say show!

Mehmet Murat ildan -

We humans speak many languages flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!

Dina Zettira Putri -

Nights are belong to the universe that speaks about an unspoken feelings into a poetry.

Dick Cavett -

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

Eliza Coupe -

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

Emeli Sande -

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Wilbur Smith -

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Alessia Cara -

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

George Santayana -

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Baruch Spinoza -

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Janos Kadar -

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

Thomas Jefferson -

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Gilbert Baker -

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

Allen Ginsberg -

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Wislawa Szymborska -

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

David Mamet -

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

John Burnside -

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

Erica Jong -

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Sherman Alexie -

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Jim Harrison -

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Douglas Coupland -

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Richard M. Nixon -

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Tea Obreht -

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

Natasha Trethewey -

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Boris Pasternak -

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Juan Felipe Herrera -

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Rafer Johnson -

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

Anthony T.Hincks -

Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line.

Anthony T. Hincks -

When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.

Anthony T. Hincks -

If you wish to meet and speak with god, you must first try to tame a wild tiger with a feather and a stick.

Anthony T. Hincks -

When you think in silence you cannot speak your mind.

Anthony T. Hincks -

My eyes may not utter words, but they speak volumes when I look at you.

Anthony T. Hincks -

A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Emilie Autumn - The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.I shone because I thought you loved me...

Neale Donald Walsch - Book 2

Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In t

Jodi Picoult - Plain Truth

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

Paul Celan -

Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you fromMidnight to midday and midnight.Look around:See how things all come alive-By death! Alive!Speaks true who speaks shadow.But now the place shrinks, where you stand:Where now, shadow-stripped, where?Climb. Grope upwards.Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer!Finer: a threadThe star wants to

William Brade -

To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

E.N. Supen - Turning Point

Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.

Sunday Adelaja -

To hear a radical change of perspective is to hear a kingdom minded man speak

Audre Lorde - Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.

A.D. Posey -

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

Nadia Sahari - Breakaway: How I Survived Abuse

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Jane Goodall -

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

Israelmore Ayivor - Six Words Inspiration

Don’t be silent on your talent!

Debasish Mridha M.D. -

Those who want to learn, listen. Those who do not want to think, speak.

Santosh Kalwar -

O dear Himalaya...why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak...O dear Himalaya...

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Thought before word, never word before thought.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

Sanhita Baruah -

I wish not to tell you how I feel,I choose silence so that you leave,Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

When you have the grace to speak, declare sacred-utterances.

John Barth - Chimera

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

S.M. Boyce - Lichgates

The time will come when you will doubt everything you stand for, but you must push forward and never stop. Do not let others speak for you, or you will lose your voice forever.” ~The Grimoire

Jim George -

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

Sri Chinmoy -

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

Celia McMahon - Skye

Grin is still beside me. His arms are hung tightly as his side and I take his hand. It is like touching stone and he turns stiffly toward me as we begin making our way back to where Rosso had camped the horses. We are both quiet but I know we were both thinking the same thing. That we wish we were out there and that we wish this wasn't happening at the same time. I suddenly feel the need to apologize to him too. It is because of me that his father and brothers are in this situation but that was

Sovereign Voice -

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

Robert Walser - Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser

My cheeks are red hot,my lip still trembles,because I sent my heartto speak; every word of itdelusional and awkward,an exuberance, an abrupt sound.That's how I spoke, oh, it stillshows on my hot cheeksI'm now carrying home.I look down at the snowand walk past many houses,past many hedges, many trees,the snow adorns hedge, tree and house.I walk on, staring downat the snow, on my cheeksnothing but red-hot memoryreminding me of my wild talk.

Roger James McDonald -

The Wrods We Sepak Ifnlucne Waht We See Ifnlucne The Atconis We Tkae Gvies Us The Rseluts We Get...The Words We Speak Influence What We See Influences The Actions We Take Gives Us The Results We Get!

Bud Gardner - Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

Raaz Ojha -

Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

Andrew Galasetti - These Colors Don't Run

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

Evinda Lepins -

A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying?

Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

Ally Condie - Atlantia

Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

Ann Rinaldi - Wolf by the Ears

Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.

Markus Zusak - Underdog

At first, all is black and white.Black on white.That's where I'm walking, through pages.These pages.Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

When you have the grace speak, declare sacred-utterances.

Sanjo Jendayi -

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

Sanober Khan -

How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

D'Andre Lampkin -

Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.

Laurence J. Peter -

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

Erik Pevernagie -

Let us speak less and say more. ( “Words flew away like birds” )

Rachel L. Schade - Silent Kingdom

No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.

Akshay Vasu -

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -

If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute.If words are to be sounded, impress through the partition in ever slight measure to the other side the other signature the other hearing the other speech the other grasp.

Rainer Maria Rilke - Duino Elegies

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can live with are falling away,and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image.Will beneath crusts which readily crackwhenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders.