Speak Quotes
7113 Speak quotes by 4090 unique authors
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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that…
— Georges Bernanos
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The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
— C.S. Lewis
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It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which…
— Rudolf Bultmann
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There was no one left to speak for me
— Martin Niemoller
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People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
— H. L. Mencken
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In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is,…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're…
— Stephen Covey
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Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists…
— Unknown Author
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but…
— Lactantius
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Before you speak, listen.
— William Arthur Ward
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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to…
— Paul Tillich
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This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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When the heart speaks, love listens.
— Robert M. Hensel
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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we…
— Mother Teresa
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We never listen when we are eager to speak.
— Unknown Author
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It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.
— Joe Biden
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I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a…
— Jane Hirshfield
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one…
— Dennis Nurkse
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Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without,…
— St. Vincent
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
— Damon Albarn
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
— Nana Mouskouri
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