Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

If you want to hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak audibly, read your Bible out loud.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

I had the opportunity to speak at a recent fundraiser [for Hillary Clinton] and felt extremely honored that she would allow someone as, well, untraditional as me to stand at her podium.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

I learned how to speak English watching television.

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.