Quotes with welsh-speaking

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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Castle It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Ayn Rand It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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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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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Boris Johnson My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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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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  • William Shakespeare O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Deming Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Will Rogers Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Burning Spear Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • David Mitchell Speaking one language only is a prison.
    Black Swan Green (2008) 153
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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