Speak Quotes

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

The wise speak only of what they know

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

You speak bad of me, I score goals.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is understanding what He has to say.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on.

I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.