Speak Quotes
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The wise speak only of what they know.
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Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
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That said, be mindful, to someone who's never seen any of my work, it's just a movie with actors. So it's only those who of course know the earlier work that will see something is afoot, so to speak. But I don't want to intellectualize.
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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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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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Okay. I've got three. Which one would you like to speak to first?
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I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead
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When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
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A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.
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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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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
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It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
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Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
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If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.
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I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.
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Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.
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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
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When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.
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Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.
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When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.
