Speaking Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.
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Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.
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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
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Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
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I readied myself for the great effort of speaking with the throat-and-belly instead of the mind-and-heart. It is altogether a different skill.
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Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.
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Friends have a way of speaking without words.
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I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.
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I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.
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Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.
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I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
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Eventually, Dad and I had to start talking again, because it’s hard to avoid speaking to someone when you’re each supporting one arm of a dying person.
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People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
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Speaking, I wished to eliminate both me and him, in that bed, different from the children of long ago. We had in common only the violence we had witnessed.
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Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
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It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.
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She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
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It seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the surge of emotions, and breathless speech. In short, I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
