Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed to accurately calculate their own diminished status as a result of racial animosity - both individual and systemic - or by whites who fail to comprehend how, after forcing black folk into subservience for hundreds of years, they now whine about small privileges that pale - so to speak - in comparison to the untold advantage of centuries of benefit.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.