Speak Quotes

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In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and… — Thomas Bernhard
To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact… — James Arthur Ray
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is… — Brennan Manning
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. — Augusto Roa Bastos
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. — Jose Marti
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice — Colleen McCullough
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak… — Pippa Middleton
The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields… — Jan Karon
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? — Lydia Sigourney
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! — Victor Wooten
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.… — Murray Bookchin
But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best… — Arthur Cayley
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be… — Isaac Barrow
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute. — Khalil Gibran
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period… — Edward Hallett Carr
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in… — Tom Paxton
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17. — Carly Simon
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. — Ted Nugent
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story:… — Marco Polo

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