Speak Quotes - Page 34

I felt vindicated that I decided to speak up for not only myself but women all across the nation who've been put down.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

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

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.