Speak Quotes
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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
Ray Bradbury
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
Ajahn Chah
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
Carrie Fisher
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Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.
Ray Bradbury
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
Judy Blume
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The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
Ray Bradbury
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I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.
Henry Louis Gates
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It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
Eugenie Anderson
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Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
Simon Sinek
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Simon Callow
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The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.
Walter Armstrong, III
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But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?
George Steinbrenner
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One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
Cecelia Ahern
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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa
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Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Thomas Sowell
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We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
Eugene McCarthy
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Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
Rupert Murdoch
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When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.
Simon Sinek
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My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.
Mireille Mathieu
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Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.
Caroline Myss
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There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.
Geert Wilders
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He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.
Haruki Murakami
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A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers.
Niels Kaj Jerne