Quotes about speaking

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“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”

“… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

“Cats cant speak, that's common sense.
-Yoruichi”

“I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms”

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”

“When I go around and speak on campuses,
I still don't get young men standing up and saying,
How can I combine career and family?”

“Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.”

“People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.”

“But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.”

“Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-”

“Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it.”

“The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”

“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.

Giggles can spread from person to person.

So can blushing.

But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”

“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”

“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed.”

“I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk… I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.”

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.”

“There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”

“If you ever decide on a career change, I’d avoid motivational speaking.”

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need”

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”

“I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.”

“I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace”

“The young gentleman is correct," he said.
Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman."

~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will”

“Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak?.
Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
p.171”

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”

“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”

“Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.”

“I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.”

“Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul”

“Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.”

“The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.”

“Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.”

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

“No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.”

“And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.”

“If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.”

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

“So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.”

“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.”

“I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”

“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”

“Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!”

“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”

“My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises”

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

“I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.”
“I thought your mother was dead.”
“She is.”
“You have a very low standard for communication.”

“When one is silent, those around speak even more.”

“Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never mind. It’s not as if you know the meaning of loyalty —”
“Gabriel.” Gideon’s voice was a reprimand to his brother. “Do not speak to Will in that manner.”

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.”

“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”

“You who speak languages, you are such liars.”

“Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?"
Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?”

“She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed.”

“I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?”

“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”

“People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.”

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”

“There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.”

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”

“Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”
“I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.”

“when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us”

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”

“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”

“Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.”

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.”

“If trees could speak they wouldn't”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”

“Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance…”

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”

“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”

“I don't speak fluent bumpkin…”

“Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.”

“If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”

“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)”

“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”

“She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.”

“I speak as I must and cannot be silent.”