Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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 one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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 is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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

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!

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.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 must speak about serious things seriously.

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

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

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

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

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

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