Quotation Explorer - 'Speak'

Deeds, not words shall speak me. - John Fletcher
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. - William Blake
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am... - Jesse Ventura
One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything. - Amit Kalantri
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel - Jack Cady
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. - Ben Jonson
The way you choose to think and speak about yourself (to yourself and others), IS A CHOICE! You may have spent your whole life talking about yourself in a negative way, but that doesn't mean you have to continue that path. - Miya Yamanouchi
A person empowers oneself with a wisdom light by own tendency to Speak or Write consistently that which is Right, and that only offers him a third Eyesight to see the true colour of the supporting people's character in Black and White. - Anuj Somany
I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music. - William Shakespeare
A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements. - Roseville Nidea
Let us speak less and say more. ( Words flew away like birds ) - Erik Pevernagie
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. - Fran Lebowitz
Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man - Frederick Douglass
I’ll never speak to God again. - Sylvia Plath
All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and still convey so much. - Rachel Joyce
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. - W.H. Auden
Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA. - Eddie Huang
Let your love, care, and kindness speak louder than your words. - Debasish Mridha
When you are angry, be still and do not speak. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad. - Marcel Proust
YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time. - Nicole Bonomi
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. - Jane Goodall
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. - H. L. Mencken
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. - J.G. Ballard
You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear. - Stephen Richards
What you love is a clue to your calling and talent.As you assume the responsibilities of the present, take time to enjoy the privileges available to you now. Today's action will speak better of tomorrow and more. - Prince Akwarandu
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. - Anonymous
But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought. - Euripides
It is not enough to speak but to speak truth - William Shakespeare
If you love someone...feel it, speak it, show it, be it.If you don't feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner...be kind enough to let them go...so they can find someone who will. - Steve Maraboli
When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts. - Kieron Gillen
We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. - DaShanne Stokes
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. - Anne Tyler
Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak. - Ayn Rand
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. - Lawrence Clark Powell
I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. - Shandy L. Kurth
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest. - Tennessee Williams
Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help. - Leila Summers
let the truth speak on behalf of your soul - litymunshi
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. - Seneca
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. - Roy Bennett
Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak. - A.D. Posey
Even if you had committed a murder, I would have committed one too just so I could be with you… Even if you could not speak, see, hear or walk... I would have always, do you hear me, always stayed with you! - Rom Amor
American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain. - Audre Lorde
We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be real Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience. - Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you learn to speak, you can never be as good as in your first. - Ahmed Alibage
Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition. - Sovereign Voice
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - George Jessel
When success is one thought away, think it.When success is one word away, speak it.When success is one deed away, perform it.When success is one step away, take it.When success is one moment away, seize it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,I thought I’d speak it just the same. - Rod McKuen
When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart - Subhan Zein
Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers - Radhe Maa
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. - Benjamin Franklin
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. - Walt Disney Company
Speak less, listen deeply. - Radhe Maa
My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to. - Nikki Rowe
...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly. - Mark Dintenfass
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. - George Lucas
Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?' - Saint Jerome
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. - Franz Kafka
Think about the people you love, appreciate, and admire… If today was the last day you could speak with them… What would you say… and what are you waiting for? - Steve Maraboli
Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds. - Jón Kalman Stefánsson
It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all. - Karen Marie Moning
Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches - Himmilicious
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you. - Alistair Begg
The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to you in profound ways. - Adele Theron
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of. - Robert Brault
There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. - Mark Twain
Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth! - Israelmore Ayivor
I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. - Blaise Pascal
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true. - Amit Abraham
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The fact speak for themselves. - Demosthenes
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. - Theodore Roosevelt
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun. - Wendell Berry
Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if they persecute you and speak bad things about you. Work with them and pray for them! - Pastor Adelaja Sunday
First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice - Rasheed Ogunlaru
It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear. - Henry David Thoreau
Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess. - C. JoyBell C.
Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds. - Ezra Pound
We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul. - Vironika Tugaleva
My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant - Tonny K. Brown
Speak low if you speak love. - William Shakespeare
80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As their father, you are prophesying their future! - Neil Kennedy
Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. - Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Lawrence J. Peters
When deeds speak, words are nothing. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you. - Marty Rubin
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad. - Fulton J. Sheen
Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad or you shall speak and speak how mad they think you are! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words - Anonymous
We have a right to speak our minds, not an obligation to do so. - Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Those who want to learn, listen. Those who do not want to think, speak. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Love is multidimensional...Don't just say; DO.Don't just speak; ACT.Don't just promise; DELIVER. - Steve Maraboli
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible - Arthur Schopenhauer
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. - W. Somerset Maugham
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it. - Pearl Buck
When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears - Ikechukwu Izuakor
Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part. - Nikki Rowe
We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others. - Kamand Kojouri
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted. - Martin Luther
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. - Lady Gaga
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. - Evan Esar
The words you speak into your life are the fountain you swim it. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Fifth and finally, do nothing impulsively. Give God an opportunity to speak. Until He does, stall for time and concentrate on the first four approaches. - James C. Dobson
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. - Ben Jonson
I willingly accept Cassandra's fateTo speak the truth, although believed too late. - Anne Killigrew
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? - Gautama Buddha
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. - Boyd K. Packer
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like. - Noor Iskandar
When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud GardnerThis is what my books do about stories of the Past, Present and Futur. Enjoy!Visit my page on Amazon.com - Claire Hamelin Manning
They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. - Iain M. Banks
She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you. - Stephen F. Campbell
We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak - Nanette L. Avery
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. - Socrates
Before I speak, I have something important to say. - Groucho Marx
Be specific in your prayers. Carefully craft what you speak. What you say should be in accordance with the word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You will find that this will resolve attacks or issues that arise. - Dr. Glen A. Staples
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. - Edmund Burke
Speak with your heart when you speak love. - Debasish Mridha
These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago. - Milton Friedman
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. - Vladimir Nabokov
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. - William Blake
You are truly classy if you manage to speak politely in spite of anger boiling inside you. - Saru Singhal
why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house. - Scottish Proverb
You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason. - Isabel Allende
Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak. - Dr Susan Block
when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand. - Sanober Khan
We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated. - Billy Marshall Stoneking
Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most. - Dillon Burroughs
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak. - Werner Heisenberg
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. - Turkish proverb
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? - Walt Whitman
Today's progress, was once yesterday's discussion. Speak aloud, see it through, and most importantly believe! - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word exit which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success - Pablo
…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… - 2 Peter 2 18
We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what. - Samael Aun Weor
When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness. - Matshona Dhliwayo
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture - Paulo Coelho
Never build relationships with others based on the words they speak instead of the actions they take. - Van Moody
Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately,And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky! - Somya Kedia
When in crises situation, never mourn along with the crises, rather speak to the crises saying, "Crises what opportunities are you hiding for me. - Auliq-Ice
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say. - Leonard Cohen
Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. - Anonymous
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill
Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you speak, you can never be as good as in your first. - Ahmed Alibage
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Speak beautiful words to create beautiful world - Rajesh Walecha
Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful. - George Sand
One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say. - Hope Solo
When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow. - Na'ama Yehuda
A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. - Jason Ellis
Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak. - Jonathan Haidt
You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them... you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be... - Sanhita Baruah
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. - Sandra E. Lamb
Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity. - Bias
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak. - Euripides
Your tongue may speak lies, but your eyes know the truth. - Amber Jacobs
i feel great when i used to speak with persons who believe hope - DINESH DEVIREDDY
The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle! - Alisa Hope Wagner
When we hear our souls speak, we are free. - A.D. Posey
I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November. - Ricky Ponting
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. - Anonymous
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society. - Carlos Fuentes
When you start speaking the "TRUTH" it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression. - Henry Johnson Jr
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. - John Coltrane
I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth - Imran Khan
Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? - J.E. Seanachaí
Almost everybody gets tired and bored by one lackadaisical topic. If you hit them with something delicious, like a sexy adventure, then the world will want to hear you speak, mind you! Don't become a vulgarian. - Michael Bassey Johnson
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!! - Sandra Chami Kassis
Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. - Michael Mewshaw
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. - Eckhart Tolle
To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence. - Steven Aitchison
Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway. - Yasmin Mogahed
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. - Jean Kerr
I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak. - Andrea Gibson
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon. - George Eliot
To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth - William Brade
-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings. - Leo Tolstoy
If I should go before the rest of youBreak not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well. - Joyce Grenfell
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to. - Arshile Gorky
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away. - A.D. Posey
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? - Clarence Darrow
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. - William Shakespeare
Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so. - Nana Awere Damoah
So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed. - one of the ancient Greeks I'm on a hunt to find which one.
Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived - Nikki Rowe
How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against? - Kyle Schmalenberg
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns. - Jerry Mander
I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless. - Amit Kalantri
Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless. - E.N. Supen, Turning Point
In deep pain, the sacred voice must speak to survive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. - Marva Collins
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape. - Darnell Lamont Walker
When you want your message to be heard, always speak from your heart. - Molly Friedenfeld
You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing. - Alice Walker
We would rather run ourselves down than not speak of ourselves at all. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To speak your Heart outnothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !! - Dinakar Phillip
For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals. - Aysha Taryam
Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet. - Dean Cavanagh
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. - Octavio Paz
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. - Francis Quarles
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. - John Tillotson
Be a woman of confidence, not cockiness. Know your boundaries, set no limits. Speak your kindness and turn your back to conformed groups. The only way to be a woman of change in this world, is to walk what you talk and set your own soul free first. - Nikki Rowe
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. - Napoleon Hill
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. - Jane Austen
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. - Gary Snyder
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. - Robert Herrick
Speak no evil of an absent friend. (Non male loquare absenti amico) - Titus Maccius Plautus
The feeling is the voice of the words, so the people speak out loud their intention, good or bad, even when they try to keep it under wrap in their said or shared thoughts. - Anuj Somany
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. - Chuck Palahniuk
One act of kindness teaches more about the love of Jesus than the words I speak. - Hector Perez
Lord, speak not what I am wanting to hear, but speak what you want to say. For what you say, is truly what I need to hear. - Elias Tan JS
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. - Patricia Highsmith
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. - John Calvin
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. - Plutarch
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I want to speak to the dream in your heart. That dream that has taken a backseat as you have strived to live up to something different. - Suzette Hinton
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. - Franz Kafka
I'm learning to maneuver in quietness, and let the results speak. - Andrea L'Arriste
Don't speak thoughtlessly.Don't worry unnecessarily.Don't work half-heartedly.Don't spend recklessly.Don't give begrudgingly.Don't act self-centeredly.Don't live short-sightedly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world. - Vironika Tugaleva
There are two kinds of people: those who live their lives, and those who watch and speak of those living their lives. - Ali B. Moe
Any woman can open her mouth and speak to a man. It takes a special woman to open her mouth and strengthen a man. - C.L. Brown
To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. - L.R.W. Lee
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. - Napoleon Hill
Words are the timeless beauties; they tell a thousand stories, deliver your purpose, speak the heart and build character. The play and interaction of words amuse me, hence the power of words is my love. - Sharlene Leong
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak. - C. Kent Wright
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Always Speak Life into those who seek your counsel. - Randa Manning-Johnson
Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely and the right to be heard. - Hillary Rodham Clinton
What I speak and express is what, that does not even belong to me. - Alok Jagawat
If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others. - Sri Chinmoy
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind. - Kurt Vonnegut
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. - Cicero
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure. - Aaron McGruder
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean wherever my imagination ranges. - Anton Chekhov
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking. - Peter Rollins
We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous. - Parmenides
See no good, hear no good, speak no good; and the people will eventually find you good! - Huseyn Raza
When we are able to offer to the other something of ourselves that can engage, nourish or sustain spirit then we most fully speak. Likewise, the forest is a bit more beautiful. The light finds its way in; reaching out to the ground guiding us to a heavenly place. - Ishan Khatri
She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak. - J.X. Burros
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. - Abigail Van Buren
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. - Sextus Propertius
He sent Jesus to come and to talk to us and then allowed him to be killed so that the spirit that lived in Jesus could go out into all the earth and speak to you right where you are in your heart. Right now. - Lacey Sturm
Unless I speak, you won't see me. - Marty Rubin
Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular. - John Reynaga
Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! - Théophile Thoré
long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep. Luther Burbank - Euripides
Let us awake numb souls.. To cry, to speak and to call. - Bela Anĝelo
Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak for others as well. - Duo Duo
I am the Love that Dare not Speak its Name - Alfred Bruce Douglas
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest. - William Shakespeare
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. - Boris Pasternak
In a company of children and grown-ups, the latter are those who should demonstrate good manners and always let the children speak first. - Zoran Stojkovski
If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone. - Richard Wright
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do,Come again. - Kamand Kojouri
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? - Russell Hoban
A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely; but be sure you get to where you are going with your words. - Israelmore Ayivor
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. - George Clooney
From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves. - Toni Morrison
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you. - Kamand Kojouri
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human. - Donald Miller
The Nature cannot Speak with words but will show us In the Future what we do Wrong now. - Jan Jansen
In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself. - Andrew Lang
Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people tend to have more confidence in the person you talked about when they get tired of your gossip. Speak with love and kindness or don't speak at all. - Uzoma Nnadi
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. - William Shakespeare
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys. - Emmuska Orczy
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson
Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does. - Anis Mojgani
If your eyes could speak, what would they say? - Markus Zusak
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
speak hard, steal the air. - Anne McCaffrey
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak. - Zhuangzi
Speak with honesty. Think with sincerity.Act with integrity. - A Course In Miracles
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard - Henry David Thoreau
Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged. - Winston S. Churchill
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. - Dr. Seuss
I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. - Maya Angelou
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney. - Tad Williams
Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader. - Gary Rohrmayer
Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same. - Mykyta Isagulov
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. - Seneca
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then - Henry David Thoreau
GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing. - Ambrose Bierce
anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
if you speak things into existence, they will become real.. believe me! - Rakesh Vemulawada
Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have? - Stephen Richards
No infant starts to speak with a stammer - Lionel Logue
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. - Gerald R. Ford
This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is. - Nikki Rowe
Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say. - Suman Pokhrel
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, act and behave poorly. - Uzoma Nnadi
We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak... - Nanette L. Avery
Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write... - Sanhita Baruah
What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. - Larry R. Lawrence
To take away a woman's ability to walk is one thing; it's quite another to take away her ability to speak. -(Lady Meesha) I Am Lady Sasha -The Journey From Slave to Slave- - Julienne Russell
You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever. - Auliq Ice
Be bold, speak from your heart. - Nikki Rowe
Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil. - Richard Connell
Speak your truth, create your path, love your journey. - Amy Daumit
When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you. - Onyi Anyado
A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying? - Evinda Lepins
Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak. - G.K. Chesterton
I don't speak very well, I work very well. - Amit Kalantri
My favourite conversations are those with the universe, I speak all that I am and the most beautiful response flies a shooting star across the sky, it's proof ~ vibrations of light have the capacity to change our world. - Nikki Rowe
You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO! - Steve Maraboli
The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. - 1 Corinthians 13 11
Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Horses don't speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you'll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day. - Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
Don’t speak of the wolf like his self in the mirror... Just bring her body HOME and she will never leave again(Or at least without common understanding) - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. - Ambrose Bierce
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. - Samuel Johnson
The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you. - Monika Ramzy
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. - George Orwell
Do not speak ill of the dead. - The Seven Sages
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak. - Toni Morrison
There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak! - Pauline Seaport
I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak. - Bill McKenzie
Dies iral, dies illaSolvet Saeclum in FavillaTeste David cum SilyllaThat Day of Wrath, that day of burningSeer and Sibly speak concerningAll the world to ashes turning - George Smith
Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage. - Toni Sorenson
The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush* - Saravana Kumar Murugan
To live in denial of caring deeply, to hold oneself back from speaking from the heart as a means of self protection, to speak in whispers, to describe what you have together as "this." Oh the sweet sadness of forbidden love. - Cheryld
We speak, but it is God who teaches. - Augustine of Hippo
Don't talk about love, But speak out of love cause most of the liars are only perfect of talking about nothing but passion & don't talk about justice, But speak out of justice cause most of the oppressors are only perfect of talking about nothing but rightness. - Ibrahim Aslan
How you speak is how you are. - Stephen Richards
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. - William Shakespeare
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. - Audre Lorde
Let your work speak for itself:If poor, it will remain silent.If average, it will whisper.If good, it will talk.If great, it will shout.If genius, it will sing. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. - Nick Hornby
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table. - Amy Vanderbilt
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. - George Santayana
It is better to be still than to speak when you are angry. - Lailah Gifty Akita
As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself. - G.R. Reader
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. - William Shakespeare
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. - Becky Watson
Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth. - Santosh Kalwar
To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down. - Dada Bhagwan
Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all. - Laura Resnick
In these last days, what the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. - Larry R. Lawrence
We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not? - Susan Fletcher
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. - Jane Goodall
May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title. - Dee Dee M. Scott
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. - Sunday Adelaja
That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. - Milan Kundera
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. - Frantz Fanon
History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. - Kedar Joshi
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. - Richard M. Rorty
May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stand tall and face YOUR truth. Speak boldly and be confident in what you say. Don't just dream, but take the steps to get where you want to be. Stay motivated, determined, and focused because YOU are worth it! Giving up is NOT an option. Keep your eyes on what matters and what's truly important. - Stephanie Lahart
I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want. - Leigh Bardugo
Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous. - Aysha Taryam
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes. - Karen Salmansohn
Results speak for themselves while intentions often fall short of promises. - Mika Lo, wHow contributor
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. - J.K. Rowling
And speak to people good [words] - Quran 2 83
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. - Plato
The talent should speak for itself.
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness. - Philip Sington
Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together - Luce Irigaray
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! - Roger James McDonald
Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves. - Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet
Speak with intent so that you can lead with vision. - Paul Larsen
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable. - Sophocles
Don't let sickness, depression, and disease THUG YOU OUT. Eat healthier, think healthier, speak healthier, and more positively over your life. When you do so, you will soon begin to conquer your life and your health through new found empowerment- mind, body, and spirit. - SupaNova Slom
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. - Charles R. Swindoll
Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you will stop gossiping about people and using your words to bring people down? Try that today, speak only the good things you know about people and encourage others to do the same, - Ane Krstevska
If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to speak for the voiceless. - Gugu Mona
Be like Jesus. Live love, speak love, think love…..do all things in love. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak. - Paul Wellstone
It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe in letting the story speak for itself. - L.M. Fields
Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence. - Shannon L. Alder
People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words! - Israelmore Ayivor
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words. - William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. - William Shakespeare
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them. - Henry David Thoreau
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer. - Psalms 45 1
An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice. - Bill Watterson
Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorganbut in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer - Venkat Gandhi
A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. - Robert Frost
You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit. - Stephen Decatur
Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak. - Carl Sandburg
I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way... - Milton H. Erickson
I'm learning to manuever in quietness, and let the results speak. - Andrea L'Artiste
Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day's ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Choose a leader who will build bridges - not walls. A leader who will promote peace - not wars. A leader who believes in equality - not discrimination. A leader who is transparent - not secretive. A leader who will speak for all - not just animals. - Mizan Chaudhury
When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me. - Thomas Harris
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain! - Deena Metzger
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. - George Bernard Shaw
The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart. - Hain Ginott
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe. - Kemi Sogunle
Silence is victory and patience is glory.Let silence speak our identityand let patience keep our dignity. - Aram Seriteratai
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong - Sunday Adelaja
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world. - Ted Hughes
A mistress has NO RIGHT to speak out or play the victim and pity party. NONE !! - Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence. - Bryant McGill
Speak success into existence. - Bianca Frazier
The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart - Marty Rubin
Always listen to your soul and feel the purity of that moment - no matter how sad or joyful - because it will speak to you further... a healing an understanding, a perspective or more will come out of it. Only because you listened. - Angie karan
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. - Charles Kingsley
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. - Ernest Hemingway
Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ( Life was a misunderstanding » ) - Erik Pevernagie
An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet. - Amit Kalantri
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also. - William Shakespeare
Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap. - Dimitris Mita
Wise men speak only of what they know - J.R.R. Tolkien
The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them - Radhe Maa
I can only speak for myself, I said. But there are none that I have ever loved who I no longer love. - Patricia Briggs
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. - Allen Ginsberg
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather
Don't be afraid to take the first step and speak from your heart. - Nash
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. - Neil Gaiman
Then I will speak upon the ashes. - Sojourner Truth
As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies. - Rod Serling
It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs. - Jim George
My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you. - Karl R. Popper
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. - Amit Abraham
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism. - Sigmund Freud
The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them. - Unknown
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us. - Errol Anthony Smythe.
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth. - Oscar Wilde
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence. - Chris Hedges
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
We see only half , yet speak like we know the other . - Beven pearlju
May the way I look at you, the way I speak with you, and the way I treat you reflect the truth that... I have loved you since forever. - Steve Maraboli
Always stay young with your looks, your thoughts should speak your maturity - Binoy Boban
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
To speak a dream aloud is to cast a magic spell. - Alice Bag
It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all. - Nikki Rowe
Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you - Katherine Allred
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart. - Edgar Allan Poe
When you do what someone else wants you to do, you are wasting your time. Don’t get tricked by other people’s thinking. The life is yours and so are goals. Believe in your own intuitions, speak your own voice, and follow what your heart says. The rest is secondary. - Ashish Patel
'...I am true Love, I fill the heart of boy and girl with mutual flame.' Then, sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will. I am the Love that dare not speak it's name.'
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night. - Katelin Wagner
I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak to the moon. I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion inside myself. Im an artist, what more can you expect? i am full of soul, love and all the rest. - Nikki Rowe
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe. - Frank Herbert
The words you speak reveal the heart you have. - Todd Stocker
We were learning to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak. - Malala Yousafzai
One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few,your troubles will not be many. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, 'Because I said so," from God in heaven. And I may not ever want to speak to Him again. - Sarah Thebarge
Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice. - Nikki Rowe
The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. - Blaise Pascal
To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality. - Tobin Wilson
Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'. - Bob Dylan
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. - Slovenian Proverb
"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person - Constance Friday
When the future you see is worse than the present, one begins to worry. And, oh, I speak of Ghanaian politicians. The tadpoles are out-jumping the toads. - Nana Awere Damoah
Beware of anything to do with President Obama...I speak from experience. - Steven Magee
Everyone has their opinion and everyone loves it. Nobody wants to accepts others opinion. So to make them happy be diplomatic and speak unclearly, let them interpret your thoughts by themselves, let them think what they want to think - Jagdish Poudel
I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you don't create a good message about your dreams, those who were created to pay for it can't find it. Speak them out and you will find those God created to finance it - Israelmore Ayivor
After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again. - Mark W. Boyer
Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. - Israelmore Ayivor
We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality - Sunday Adelaja
I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid. - Matthew Donnelly
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. - Thomas J. Watson
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?
When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness. - Tom Krause
The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham - Tom Cunningham
You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss - Bill Holm
I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign. - Jasmine Ann Cooray
‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. - Elsa Tamez
If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie. - Amit Kalantri
No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God) - Reza Aslan
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do. - Lilit Marcus
The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint. - Murong Xuecun
You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night. - Ken Poirot
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. - Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends - John Chrysostom
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. "Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he did speak up; "'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it in my teacup." Joel Huck - Ambrose Bierce
Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner? - William Shakespeare
Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. - Shannon L. Alder
Before you act, think.Before you speak, listen.Before you take, give.Before you scorn, empathize.Before you condemn, forgive.Before you wound, love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here. - William Lenthall
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. - Epictetus
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman. - Betty Friedan
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. - George Orwell
I'll let you in on a secret ...How to avoid taking a wrong turn. I speak from experience. Don't blame the world around you. The world is very much larger ...than you realize. Large enough to embrace all of you. - Yellow Tanabe
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless". - Veronica Roth
Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better. - T Jay Taylor
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. - Theodore Roosevelt
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues allow them a language as lousy as their life - William H. Gass
Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am. - Nuno Roque
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. - Adrian Rogers
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And when I saw you kissing that girlMy heart, it shattered and my eyes, they wateredAnd when I tried to speak, I stuttered - Kate Nash
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. - C.S. Lewis
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
English is only a weak second language, so that the third language--which at the moment is getting the most play, since French is what I speak, read, and hear almost 24/7--is trying to take over the no. 2 spot. - Apol Lejano-Massebieau
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. - Gautama Buddha
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. - Ausonius
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. - Theodore Roosevelt
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me. - Coco J. Ginger
If you want to be seen, stand up.If you want to be heard, speak up.If you want to be appreciated, shut up. - Bill Cosby
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein
I’ve long believed that the gods give us the music we’re supposed to hear at the times we’re supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in and of itself an inherently magical language that can, at proper times, speak to the soul. - Ruadhán J. McElroy
The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less. - Zeno
It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used. - Jess Walter
Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away. - Dalal Gebara
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gerti didn’t ask for help. Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. It was my fault. So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to. So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes? - Shannon Hale
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. - John Burroughs
To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day. - Lao Tzu
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated. - Michael Bassey Johnson
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. - Sam Levenson
I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me? - Neil Gaiman
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. - John G. Diefenbaker
However, the primary job of a servant of God is to speak or to write words to convict people of God's truth. So, in the speaking or in the writing of words, he witnesses for God. - Richard T. Ritenbaugh
With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
The more I speak the more I make mistakes so. I speak less and listen more - Nicolas Kalinde
My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy. - Amit Kalantri
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. - Eleanor Holmes Norton
As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves. - Gavin de Becker
Girls who like each other have a different energy. More intense. Furtive. They're part of a secret world. They speak in code, like spies. Everything has a hidden meaning. - Leah Reader
Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don’t even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground. - Alice Walker
Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice. - Larry R. Lawrence
Speak less and listen more. - Zai
Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life. - Marty Rubin
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau
Words speak to the mind through the ears; actions speak to the mind through the eye - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. - Confucius
Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head. - Sanjo Jendayi
We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims? - Robert F. Kennedy
When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you. - Stormie Omartian
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap. - Yann Martel
Words that are spoken are not TRUE,Feelings alone speak the TRUTH. - Sarvesh Murthi .D .D
In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes.I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind riots. - Beau Taplin
Multitudes speak of their first love; seldom about their last hate. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome
Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking? - Terry Eagleton
Speak with silence, listen with heart, and forgive with kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person. - Beth Kephart
Never speak ill against someone else. You can't know what life holds for you. The ill you speak against someone else may find you sooner than you think. Speak blessings not curses. It's what I told my son. It's what I'm telling you. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
You have two voices, one that only you hear, and another that you speak out loud with, so others hear you. Regardless of what you actually say with your mouth, what matters is what your inner voice says, for this is the one you listen to the most. - Stephen Richards
To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice. - Michel Templet
I want to be able to speak to as many people as I can in my life and share this with the world! - Ali Shahbazi
Nowadays people have forgotten about morality and virtue, but they know how to resolve arguments. Look, what’s happening. We lead wars with measurements, dafters and calculations. We do not speak to inspire, we endeavour to create massacre and engulf as many people as we can. Where did we miss? - Alexander Zalan
Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. - Lenora Champagne
Some say the bible teaches that with our tongues we can speak, set things into motion both good and bad, life and death. What we bind and loose on earth will be bound and loosed in heaven. - William Elias
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. - Ernest Hemingway
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that. - Oscar Wilde
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. - Lillian Hellman
Why do you look so sad?""Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings. - "Pierrot le fou"
We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom. - Elizabeth George
Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions. - Shon Mehta
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking. - Saul Bellow
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. - Seneca
burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words - John Geddes
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Sir Winston Churchill
Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda"[modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida]("I willingly want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able")(found in a German travel journal c.1450) - Christine Wulff
When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Photograph speaks every language; wisdom speaks every language; goodness speaks every language; love speaks every language! Always try to do the things that speak every language so that all will understand you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both. - Darnell Lamont Walker
I'd rather speak into someone's life than out of their life!" EL - Evinda Lepins
Stand out because you think differently.Stand out because you speak differently.Stand out because you act differently.Stand out because you work differently.Stand out because you live differently. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee
Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more. - Charles G.D. Roberts
The room flashed brighter still and then gasps filled the room. They were all gathered around Roxy and she was unsure why. She didn’t feel any different, Hadn’t the spell worked ? Roxy opened her mouth to speak and then she heard it…… a purr. - Amanda Turner
Your thoughts, your words are reflections of who you truly are and who you could become. Be careful what you think of and of what you speak of for these can manifest in your life. So why not throw away all those negativity and just remain open to positivity?" - Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo
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