Speak Quotes
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
William Hazlitt
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Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
Daniel Barenboim
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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
Yasmin Mogahed
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The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.
Ted Cruz
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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
Joanne Rowling
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The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
William James
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!
Mother Teresa
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
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You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet.
Andrew Breitbart
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Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
William Penn
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I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.
Ben Wheatley
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I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
Ziggy Marley
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People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
Vicki Baum
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In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.
Sheila Heti
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I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
Ted Shawn
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
Malala Yousafzai
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Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Ernest Gellner
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Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.
Caroline Manzo
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Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
Madeleine de Scudery