Speak Quotes - Page 14

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

I'm sorry, I don't speak English.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.