Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

To the valiant actions speak alone.

To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.

Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves.

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

...we almost never speak I don't feel welcome anymore baby what happened, please tell me?

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.