Speak Quotes · Page 97

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

— Natalie Portman

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

— Philip Massinger

“Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Speak, express yourself and if no one seems to listen, remember that God is everywhere.

— Terry Mark

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.

— Annette Bening

Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so…

— Ian Axel

If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

— Anjelica Huston

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch…

— Daniela Ruah

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

— Jamila Woods

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year…

— Meryl Streep

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent…

— William O. Douglas

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also…

— Pope Francis

Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really…

— Rich Fulcher

“I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to…

— Alejandro Zambra

I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other…

— Chuck D

I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded…

— Rand Paul

In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.…

— Pat Benatar

It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing…

— John Cusack

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural…

— Charles Darwin

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its…

— Witold Gombrowicz

Whenever a journalist says to me, "Oh, you don't understand, I'm impartial, I'm objective," I know what he's saying. I can decode…

— John Pilger

I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other,…

— Henry Scott Holland

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

— A. B. Simpson

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.

— Geert Wilders

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

— Vicki Baum

“Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.”

— Anonymous

I'm going to continue to speak my mind in the way that I do.

— Maxine Waters

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

— Ron Stallworth

“I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her.”

— Don DeLillo

If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.

— Danielle LaPorte

I speak my mind. I'm not really afraid of things. I actually don't think that's that unusual.

— Kyrsten Sinema

I think I speak for the vast majority of sports fans who say, 'Hey, let us enjoy the games.'

— Clay Travis

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

— Sean Connery