Quotes with speak

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  • James C. Humes Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bella Thorne My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Epictetus Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Socrates Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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  • Oscar Wilde Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Billy Graham No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, ''Because He did, I can forgive you.''
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Lydia M. Child None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Al-Waleed bin Talal Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
    Al-Waleed bin Talal
    Saudi prince and businessman (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Haynes Bayly Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
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  • Antiphanes Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
    Antiphanes
    Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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  • Oscar Wilde On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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