Speak Quotes
7113 Speak quotes by 4090 unique authors
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,…
— Albert Camus
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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
— Audrey Hepburn
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
— Desmond Tutu
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are…
— Slavoj Žižek
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The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
— Kate Chopin
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost…
— Joseph Campbell
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
— Pablo Neruda
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to…
— Marya Mannes
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How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence…
— Maria Montessori
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As humans we speak one language...
— Avril Lavigne
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the…
— Hugo Black
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
— James Russell Lowell
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
— Victor Hugo
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for…
— Jonas Salk
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.
— John Hay
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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