Speak Quotes · Page 88

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

I only come out and interact socially and even speak only when need be for work or other social commitments.

— Tanushree Dutta

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

— Frank Gehry

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

— Joan of Arc

No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.

— Anonymous

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

— Dane Rudhyar

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

— Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and…

— Thomas Steinbeck

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people…

— Hilary Hahn

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English.…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

— Martin Sheen

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to…

— Lord Chesterfield

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't…

— Will Durant

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our…

— Noam Chomsky

I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest…

— Anonymous

“To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and…

— Suzy Kassem

I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the…

— Joseph M. Kahn

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing…

— Florence Nightingale

If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its…

— Martine Leavitt

In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters,…

— Madeline Miller

War films usually so dark or dirty or intense, and sometimes they guide you to feeling a certain way against war, in…

— Seth Gabel

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief…

— Darin Strauss

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you…

— Demi Lovato

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

— Leopold Schefer

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

— Jonathan Kozol

“This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my…

— Bret Harte

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said…

— John Grisham

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

— John Stuart Blackie

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

— Etgar Keret

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

— Jean Cocteau

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

— Arthur Helps

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

— Willa Cather

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

— Henry David Thoreau

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

— Joel Osteen

Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us.

— Tobias Forge

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

— Bonnie Langford

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

— Salman Rushdie