Speaking Quotes
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
Norman MacCaig
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If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Moliere
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I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
Lorde
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You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
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When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
Brian O'Driscoll
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I will keep speaking for my people.
Eric Reid
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What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water."
Eytan Fox
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When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.
Confucius
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
Heraclitus
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?
Confucius
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All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.
Martin Luther
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
Joseph Priestley
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My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.
Danny Garcia
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The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking of you." Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.
Melissa de la Cruz
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A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.
Thomas Carlyle
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I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.
Will Compton
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Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.
Hannah Arendt
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I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better? Yes, but I'm still pretty proud of myself for having raised such an amazing individual. Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.
Eric Benet
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In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund S. Muskie