Speak Quotes
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To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
Nathan Winograd
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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?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Euripides
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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
Gautama Buddha
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There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.
Paul Dirac
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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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I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.
Joshua Foer
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To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
Hannah Arendt
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
William Shakespeare
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Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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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This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
Terence McKenna
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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
Confucius
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When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.
Antonio Porchia
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
William Shakespeare
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When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of some very magical words. It's a gift when someone can listen and be quiet and not interrupt.
Sandra Cisneros
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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
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Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.
Roger Federer
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The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.
Sarah Dessen
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
Seth Godin
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
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Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
Tony Hillerman
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For the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
Terry Eagleton
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I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
Will Ferrell