We Speak Quotes

253 We Speak quotes by 215 unique authors

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and… — Jack Kornfield
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language… — Chris Hedges
I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change… — Louise Hay
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? — Lydia Sigourney
I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that-and we are, but it's not with both eyes.… — Ricky Ponting
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to… — Adora Svitak
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and… — Victor Davis Hanson
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong,… — J L Austin
Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us. — Edgar Cayce
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we… — Adam Braun
We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the… — John R. Platt
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg
How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith. — Rosemary M. Wixom
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning. — Nate Silver
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of… — St. Jerome
Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile.… — Mother Teresa
I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. — Mary Steenburgen
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar… — Richard Bach
Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us… — David Jeremiah
This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act… — Unknown Author
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins,… — BrenÃ© Brown

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