Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

Facts speak louder than statistics.

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.

Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?

Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Fools are wise until they speak.

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

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.

Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

From this day forward, speak to yourself in a way that you would someone you care about.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

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