Speak Quotes
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Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
Stephen Greenblatt
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Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.
Bernardino of Siena
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The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.
Norman Corwin
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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 one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
Lao Tzu
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I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Sandra Cisneros
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Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.
William Shakespeare
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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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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.
William Hazlitt
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt
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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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I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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I don't know how much more discussion is necessary for the network to decide what to do about it. I think our actions speak for themselves for now and we'll just see how it plays out.
Jonathan Klein
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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.
Warwick Thornton
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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
William Shakespeare
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We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
William Shakespeare
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All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
Rufus Choate
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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.
Stanley Baldwin
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills
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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
Albert Camus
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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates
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The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.
DJ Ashba Beautiful Creatures
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Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.
Bias of Priene