Speaking Quotes

1939 Speaking quotes by 1471 unique authors

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we… — J M Coetzee
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid… — Queen Elizabeth II
A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. — Evan Esar
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. — Henry David Thoreau
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell
I die for speaking the language of the angels. — Joan of Arc
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it… — Michel Foucault
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature)… — Michael Pollan
I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of… — Pablo Neruda
How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words. — Hafez
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to… — Unknown Author
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission… — Beverly Engel
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick? — Plato
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though… — Plato
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and… — Teresa of Avila
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to,… — Teresa of Avila
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak. — Plato
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did… — Teresa of Avila
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to… — Peter Senge
Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him? — Hafez

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