Speak Quotes · Page 132

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

— Shashi Tharoor

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

— Eckhart Tolle

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

— Laurance Labadie

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned

— Quentin Crisp

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

— John C. Maxwell

“Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.”

— Suman Pokhrel

That's really my goal, is just to be a kind person who knows how to speak their mind and get their points…

— Cailee Spaeny

My mum won't speak to me unless I speak properly on the phone. I have to speak 'American' for work, so often…

— Hannah Simone

Before you speak make sure that your tongue is properly connected to your brain because many people are educated but not totally…

— Katrin_o28

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is…

— Thomas Carlyle

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get…

— Steve-O

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to…

— Emeli Sande

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak…

— Tove Lo

I have had the opportunity to speak to the people of South Jersey. I have held Tele-Town Halls, gone to countless events,…

— Jeff Van Drew

A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with…

— Martin Luther

Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it…

— Emilie Autumn

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east…

— John Updike

In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you…

— Kano Jigoro

I knew I was half Chinese, but Iceland is so homogenous that I wasn't able to identify with the Asian part of…

— Laufey

What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a…

— Eric Liu

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see…

— David Bellos

My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company…

— Brooke Medicine Eagle

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

— Richard Cecil

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

— Christina Grimmie

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

— Megan Fox

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no…

— Terry Pratchett

We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.

— John Owen

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

— Rebecca Solnit

I speak Spanish, not perfectly; it's definitely my second language.

— Anna Boden

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

— Edith Sitwell

I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

— Ana de Armas

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

— Esha Gupta

“(Parentheses speak More than we dare say out loud Why, oh, why is that?)”

— Megan McCafferty

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

— Donald Wildmon

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

— Amy Tan

Many stories come from the dressing room that one doesn't speak when you are playing but can do once retired.

— Virender Sehwag

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

— Tim Ward