Quotes of: Speaks Keyword

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Jean de la Bruyere

Andrew: Speak for yourself. Bender: Do you think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language.

The Breakfast Club

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Audre Lorde

A person who speaks his own words makes the true sense to the world and, therefore, the real difference in the lives of the people to whom he speaks directly or indirectly.

Anuj Somany

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Werner Heisenberg

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.

Sanskrit

Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Turkish

With money you can make the dead speak; without it you can't even keep the deaf quiet.

Chinese

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that on...

Ion

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very f...

Mademoiselle de Maupin

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak wit...

Passions and Impressions

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around Amer...

Malcolm X

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, th...

Gordon B. Hinckley

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly?

Day of War

All women speak two languages:  the language of men  and the language of silent suffering.  Some women speak a third,  the language of queens.

E-mails from Scheherazad

I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.' 'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?

The Fault in Our Stars

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

I Speak of Ghana

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

I Speak of Ghana