Quotes on Speak

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.

About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

True perfection seems imperfect,_x000D_ _x000D_ yet it is perfectly itself._x000D_ _x000D_ True fullness seems empty,_x000D_ _x000D_ yet it is fully present._x000D_ _x000D_ True straightness seems crooked._x000D_ _x000D_ True wisdom seems foolish._x000D_ _x000D_ True art seems artless._x000D_ _x000D_ The Master allows things to happen._x000D_ _x000D_ She shapes events as they come._x000D_ _x000D_ She steps out of the way_x000D_ _x000D_ and lets the Tao speak for itself.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.

God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.