Speak Quotes - page 4

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. (Michel de Montaigne)
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. View quote
Octavio Paz
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Speak low, if you speak love. View quote
William Shakespeare
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! (Walter Scott)
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. View quote
Gerald Ford
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" View quote
Jerome
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. View quote
Jean Kerr
In truth, men speak too much of danger. View quote
José Martí
Before I speak, I have something important to say. View quote
Groucho Marx
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
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