Speak Quotes
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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
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I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
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The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.
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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
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Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.
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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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Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
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The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
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Style is the way we speak to the world without words.
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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
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With fame comes the responsibility of what you say. If the country is watching you, there ought to be substance, something worthwhile to speak about.
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Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.
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I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.
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Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!
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Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.
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I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.
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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.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.
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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!
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Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
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From this day forward, speak to yourself in a way that you would someone you care about.
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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.
