Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

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

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

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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