Speak Quotes

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The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject — Theodor Adorno
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin. — Roland Barthes
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child. — Malala Yousafzai
I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I'm… — Malala Yousafzai
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful… — Abdul Kalam
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is… — Jay McInerney
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths:… — Darin Strauss
I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many… — Richard Baxter
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on… — Richard Baxter
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee,… — Thomas Carlyle
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor. — Emile M. Cioran
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. — Rudyard Kipling
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,… — Paul Robeson
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:… — William Faulkner
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and… — John Dos Passos
Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful… — John Steinbeck
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. — Jim Jarmusch
He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high… — Giovanni Falcone
I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to… — Rand Paul
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think… — Akira Kurosawa

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