Quotes with speak

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  • Jack Benny It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
    Jack Benny
    American comedian, vaudevillian and actor (1894 - 1974)
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Russell Hoban Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Salman Rushdie Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
    The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Plato Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alighieri Dante Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Herman Melville Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Toni Morrison Let your face speak what's in your heart.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Alan Dundes Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • William Shakespeare Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Octavio Paz Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Pat Riley Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Albert Ellis Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Margaret Drabble Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 103
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Bryson More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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