Speak Quotes
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Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases—through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam’s donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
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I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical.
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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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I always tell young women that they have a right to own their opinion, to speak up, and to make the first move.
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A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
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Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
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The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
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Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service
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I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.
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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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There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions.
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Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
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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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The fact speak for themselves.
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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
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If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
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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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The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.
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This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.
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Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
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Speak of the Gods as they are.
