Speak Quotes - Page 64

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.

There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed to accurately calculate their own diminished status as a result of racial animosity - both individual and systemic - or by whites who fail to comprehend how, after forcing black folk into subservience for hundreds of years, they now whine about small privileges that pale - so to speak - in comparison to the untold advantage of centuries of benefit.

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.