Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not doing what you should do. It says in the book of James that if you know to do good and don't do it, it is sin.

The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.

The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

The design should make the product speak to you.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

The Gospel that worked in the 20th Century may not work in the 21st Century. The reason is because it is truncated. It only speaks of "Sin and Salvation" and not of the COSMIC GOSPEL that transforms all things.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.