Quotes with speak

Quotes 321 till 340 of 344.

  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Plato Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Camille Paglia Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Hill Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Campbell Brown Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bella Abzug Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Abraham Cowley Words that weep and tears that speak.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Jean Genet Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • John Ford You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
    John Ford
    American film director (1894 - 1973)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Bradley Whitford You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Bob Dylan You go watch the geek, who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak, and says, how does it feel to be such a freak?, and you say, impossible as he hands you a bone.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • St. Francis de Sales You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • William Shakespeare A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Casey Wilson Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Backbite. To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Pablo Picasso I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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