Quotes with speak

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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Washington Irving There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Molière We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Thomas Jefferson When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Russell Hoban After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Camille Paglia All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Betty Ford And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Bobby Jindal As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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