Speak Quotes
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Actions speak louder than words.
Avinash Dixit
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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.
Eleanor Farjeon
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Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
Ngaio Marsh
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We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.
Daniel Callahan
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Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
Rumi
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Euripides
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
Seneca the Younger
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
William Hazlitt
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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When you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.
Carol Grace
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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.
Epictetus
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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
Seth Godin
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
Rudyard Kipling
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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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I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.
Nick Bantock
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Victor Hugo
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I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.
Charles Lenox Remond
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
Cato the Younger
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Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox