Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

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 muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

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.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

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

Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

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 only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

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

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 poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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

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

The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.

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 (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

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 problem for me is that I just don't often come across material that speaks to me and my TV education. Before we all had DirectTV and Netflix and Amazon, there's literally 15 years where I saw nothing. Now, I get the pleasure of binge-watching, so now I feel like I'm much more in a TV state of mind, because I binge-watched so many incredible TV shows that now I'm actually a little bit more excited about working in the space.

The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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

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

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

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 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 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.

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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 true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.