Speak Quotes - Page 59

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.

I will always speak my mind.

It's your thoughts behind the words you speak that create your attitude.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

I don't know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

My brother had a mustache, and when my brother had a mustache, it was cool. When I had a mustache, everyone just assumed I'm an immigrant and I don't speak English, which is fascinating. It was a fascinating thing to discover how I looked versus my brother with a mustache.

The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not doing what you should do. It says in the book of James that if you know to do good and don't do it, it is sin.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

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.