Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of ...

Amy Tan

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.

The Cuckoo's Calling

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Caravan of Dreams

Saying of the Prophet Truth Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Caravan of Dreams

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The Complete Essays

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

Coming of Age in Mississippi

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

Consume

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

The Crane Wife

Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse

Darkest Before Dawn

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. [ ]

The Dhammapada

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Dune Messiah

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.

A Dish of Orts

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Dictation: A Quartet

I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.

Dead of Winter

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

Daytripper

I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart.

Eve of Awakening

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

Emptiness Dancing

Conversation isn't about proving a point; true conversation is about going on a journey with the people you are speaking with.

An Emerging Spirituality

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Existence

She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.

First Boy

I can also speak to small woodland creatures,” he grins at me.

The Fate of Flannery Flynn