Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.

Now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord will speak to you.

Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about inter-class dramas unfolding in the household. But something less parochial might be harder to come by. This is relevant because stories about the divisiveness of class are by definition stories that straddle class boundaries. A story about a miner in a mining town is not obviously one that speaks to the divisiveness of class. In other words, class doesn't just divide us in the world but it also divides us in the stories we're presented.

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

Once the world sees this Synagogue of Satan as it really is and knows the players, they fear what will happen to them. The world will turn against them and that is happening now as we speak.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake. [Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

One of the first things that my English teacher told when I began studying in New York was, "You're here because if you pick it up from the street, not everyone speaks good English." And it happens all the time, anywhere. If you pick up Spanish from the streets, you're not going to be able to speak it correctly.

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

On my very first day at T-Mobile, I demanded that every time I spoke publicly to the company, all employees across the country would be invited to watch. I faced legal and all that crap, but ultimately we were able to figure it out. We record it, too, so if somebody can't leave the sales floor, they can watch it later. Another thing I did very early on is give every employee stock, which we continue to do. So every time I speak to them I speak way over some of their heads.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

Our recent pop-music icons, even the most radical ones, like Björk or Caetano Veloso, often have to present themselves as happy and make positive work because they have such a large young fan base to whom they feel responsible. They can't be too negative. Now, criticism is basically a negative act. As you know, critics are neither pop stars nor popular. They are the gripers. But someone has to speak up and say no to this and yes to that.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.