Speaking Quotes

1939 Speaking quotes by 1471 unique authors

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . .… — R. Kelly
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable… — Erich Fromm
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of… — Winston Churchill
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. — Bristol Palin
God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… — Virginia Woolf
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for… — Gloria Steinem
I will never shrink from speaking truth to power, — Elizabeth May
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in… — Hubert H. Humphrey
A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He… — Thomas Carlyle
God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking? — Confucius
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies… — Ulysses S. Grant
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word… — Andre Breton
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others… — Diana Trilling
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is… — Umberto Eco
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks. — Sacha Guitry

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