Peaking Quotes

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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 for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.