Speak Quotes
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Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
Jose Rizal
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I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida
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The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.
Sandra Cisneros
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All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Hedda Hopper
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Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.
Bias of Priene
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I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.
Dolly Parton
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Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?
Virginia Woolf
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No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
William Shakespeare
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Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
Josh Bowman
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Victor Hugo
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True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
Tobias Smollett
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In the industry there's this whole mentality of working with someone who can open the door for you, but my whole thing is that I like my work to speak for itself. So I still do have that same mentality.
Rashard Bradshaw
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
William Allen White
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos
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If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
William Pollard
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
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Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
Gautama Buddha
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Tacitus
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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
Malachy McCourt
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It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
Richard Parks Bland
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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
William T. Wiley
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It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.
Kathleen Raine