Speaking Quotes
1939 quotes by 1504 authors
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I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.'…
— Jackie Chan
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You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the…
— Chris Christie
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public…
— Kelly Clarkson
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China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services…
— Hillary Clinton
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into…
— Diablo Cody
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Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.
— Eric Alterman
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like…
— Maya Angelou
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Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
— Joan of Arc
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of…
— Laozi
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
— Aristotle
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
— Juvenal
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I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type...
— Harry J. Anslinger
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have…
— H. L. Mencken
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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice,…
— Ambrose
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
— Leo Tolstoy
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