Speak Quotes
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Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
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Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.
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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
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I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
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Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.
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Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.
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Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
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The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.
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It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
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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.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
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I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
