Speak Quotes

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In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to… — Debbie Allen
The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions… — Bob Fosse
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had… — Maxim Gorky
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even… — Ivan Turgenev
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
IFÂ YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITEÂ AÂ SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILLÂ BEÂ WRITING GREAT DRAMA. — David Mamet
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the… — Clifford D. Simak
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a… — Madeleine L'Engle
Every German child learns to speak English in school. — Cornelia Funke
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks… — Joseph Bruchac
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I want a language that speaks the truth. — Studs Terkel
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and… — Ann Patchett
Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear, — Glenn Beck
We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand… — Stephen Breyer
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the… — Sonia Sotomayor
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a… — Elena Kagan
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also… — John Paul Stevens
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn
It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak. — James A. Baldwin
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with… — Stan Getz
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long… — Mark Helprin

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