Quotes with speak

Quotes 261 till 280 of 344.

  • James Russell Lowell They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Napoleon Hill Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill Clinton This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.
    Inaugural Address, 20 January 1993
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • William James Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Carine Roitfeld To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Jean Nathan To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • George Orwell To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Barry Sternlicht Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Truth is always exciting. Speak it then. Life is dull without it.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Buddha We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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