Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

The music speaks for itself!

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

The Qur'an says speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as "dead," or die in the way of Allah as "dead," "they are alive, but you perceive not.

There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So you have let something else speak... so I can't really remember which comes first, the dialogue or the pictures. It comes from that place where it sort of all comes together on its own.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.

There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.