Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

Now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord will speak to you.

Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about inter-class dramas unfolding in the household. But something less parochial might be harder to come by. This is relevant because stories about the divisiveness of class are by definition stories that straddle class boundaries. A story about a miner in a mining town is not obviously one that speaks to the divisiveness of class. In other words, class doesn't just divide us in the world but it also divides us in the stories we're presented.

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

Once the world sees this Synagogue of Satan as it really is and knows the players, they fear what will happen to them. The world will turn against them and that is happening now as we speak.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake. [Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]