Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

People like to clap back at the people who speak out most.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.