Speak Quotes

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

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

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

God speaks to us, through His Word by His Spirit.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!

Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

I always think before I speak. I'm not the sort who will just say anything that comes to my mind. I'm a very emotional and sensitive person. But I'm also very strong and know my mind well.

It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.