Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won’t contest elections

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of.

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

As far as I'm concerned, I just speak the truth.

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

As humans we speak one language.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.