Speak Quotes
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I`d like to address the people of Flint. Your families face a crisis. A crisis you did not create and could not have prevented. I want to speak directly, honestly and sincerely to let you know we are praying for you, we are working hard for you, and we are absolutely committed to taking the right steps to effectively solve this crisis.
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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.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
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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.
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That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
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Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul
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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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If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'
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I’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.
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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
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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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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
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Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, I’m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.
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There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
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Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
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Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.
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It’s important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.
