Speak Quotes - Page 45

In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can only be achieved if the speaker who has dominated speaks less and listens more.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

Speak of the Gods as they are.

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.