Speak Quotes
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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.
Norton Juster
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.
Amit Abraham
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Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .
Blaise Pascal
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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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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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I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead
Sarah MacLean
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It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.
Laurie Anderson
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... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
Confucius
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Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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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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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Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.
Sara Gruen
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But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?
George Steinbrenner
