Quotes with speaks

  • When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
  • Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
  • The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
  • God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
  • My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Jimi Hendrix Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
    Jimi Hendrix
    American guitarist and singer-songwriter (1942 - 1970)
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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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  • Voltaire When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Aesop A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Brendan Behan A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Marguerite Duras Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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