Quotes with speak

Quotes 221 till 240 of 344.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Michael Caine The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
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  • Ann Veneman The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Willa Cather The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Seabury The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Anthony Minghella The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Marquis de Custine The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • Bernard Pivot The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises - it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carl Hiaasen The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Voltaire The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William James The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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