Quotes with speak

  • English is the easiest language to speak badly.
  • The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
  • The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
  • One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
  • Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
  • Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
  • When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
  • Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
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  • Plato When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bernard Meltzer Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Ben Johnson Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bernadette Peters Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Watterson Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Plutarch Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Mae West I speak two languages, Body and English.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Shakespeare Listen to many, speak to a few.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Stephen King Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
    The Gunslinger (1982) 145
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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