People Speak Quotes

80 quotes by 74 authors

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do… — Chinua Achebe
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages.… — Bono
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the… — Joan D. Chittister
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up… — Gabor Mate
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,… — William Faulkner
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this.… — Laozi
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — W. Somerset Maugham
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people… — Gautama Buddha
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe… — Gautama Buddha
I've always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To… — Michael Bloomberg
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a… — Stanley Kubrick
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the… — Jean Cocteau
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say… — Herta Muller
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no… — Miles Davis
When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and… — Paulo Coelho

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