Speak Quotes
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For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.
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I think the desire to be a journalist started post-911. I'm Syrian American. I speak fluent Arabic. I'd come back to the States for college. I went to Skidmore in upstate New York. I was coming from Turkey, and I'd noticed that I could talk about concepts and ideas and people who seemed foreign to Americans, and they were interested in what I had to say. I think some of it is maybe because I'm very unassuming and I look American, but I'm very much from there as well so I can speak with authority about all of these issues.
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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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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
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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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I don't need to publish anything to make a living, so to speak, and I think it is much more important to spread information about our European religion than it is to make money from doing so.
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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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What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.
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Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world.
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Style is the way we speak to the world without words.
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Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.
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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
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I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
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If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.
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I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
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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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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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God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
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In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what the next big movement is going to be. The thing to do is to watch the market, read the tape to determine the limits of the get nowhere prices, and make up your mind that you will not take an interest until the prices breaks through the limit in either direction.
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Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
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What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
