Quotes about speaking

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“If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.”

“Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.”

“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”

“We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicionwork with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)”

“Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.”

“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.”

“I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.”

“Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.”

“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

“It’s said that actions speak louder than words,” he went on, “but we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard.”

“Generally speaking, colour is a power which directly influences the soul. Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.”

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

“After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'"
-Dodge(obviously)”

“Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I’m speaking to everyone—assume a middle distance and transcend myself—but I’m taking to you and you know it.”

“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”

“I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.”

“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”

“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”

“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”

“The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.”

“The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

“Speaking of Sonya… I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said."

"Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?"

"Don't start, Sage," he warned.(p 211)”

“In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.”

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front?
- Yes - I have warned them all.”

“It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.”

“Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”

“Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

“WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?”

“How many times… have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

“It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.”

“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”

“Lips to lips, mouth to mouth,
Comes the speaker of the shrouds,
Suck in the spirit, speak the words,
Let secrets of the dead be heard.”

“Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.”

“Sorry, No conprendo I don't speak Loser.”

“It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.”

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

“Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.”

“Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.”

“… if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”

“… if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.”

“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”

“Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!”

“Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.”

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

“The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.”

“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”

“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this 'relation,' precisely, which is yours.”

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”

“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.”

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need”

“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”

“Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.”

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.”

“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”

“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.”

“I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.”

“Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.”

“There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.”

“Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.”

“Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.”

“So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all."
"Not unless you instruct me to," said Will.
"This evening sounds as if it might be better than I thought.”

“I turned to speak to God
About the world's despair
But to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.
God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh)
God found I wasn't there
At least not over half.”

“… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.”

“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy…. Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

“When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.”

“Speak your latent conviction… Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”

“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

“To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.”

“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“You confuse not speaking with not listening.”