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Quotes About Speak

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
~ Eddie Campbell
When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman.
~ Mindy Kaling
God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. But it's not your job to understand. That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? Your job is to... And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.
~ Markus Zusak
Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
features that speak much more to what a middle-aged person desires for a parent than to what the parent does.
~ Atul Gawande
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
~ Audre Lorde
MOTHER. Is he mad, or a rascal? LADY. He's neither. He's no ordinary man; and it's a pity I can tell him nothing he doesn't know already. That's why we don't speak much; but he's glad to have me near him; and so am I to be near him.
~ August Strindberg
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
~ Stephen King
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
~ Stephen King
When in vice, say it twice.
~ Stephen King
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
~ Stephen King
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.
~ Chaka Khan
The fact that I'm silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say.
~ Jonathan Carroll
You speak with eerie calm, but your face promises violence. I feel a little frightened.
~ Jonathan Stroud
You,' I said. My throat was dry; I could barely speak. 'Not the greatest welcome I've ever had,' the voice said, 'but accurate. Yes, I can't deny it. Me.'
~ Jonathan Stroud
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.
~ Eric Metaxas
Speak with us, warrior ancestors," Littlecloud meowed. "Show us the destiny of our Clans." Leafpaw closed her eyes and pressed her nose against the surface of the stone.
~ Erin Hunter
they are not memories no he has no memories no nothing to prove he was ever above no in the places he sees no but he may have been yes skulking somewhere yes hugging the walls yes by night yes he can't affirm anything no deny anything no so one can't speak of memories no but at the same time one can speak of them yes
~ beckett samuel ii
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
~ beckett samuel iii
My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
~ Tavis Smiley
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
~ William Kidd
Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
~ Lance Bass