And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
The sky is a girl who speaks in thunder, moves in lightning, hides her sorrow with clouds, cries in raindrops,and apologises with rainbows.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
