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Quotes About Speak

I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.
~ Kate Crawford
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something . . . And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
~ Ray Bradbury
The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy. Democracy assumes that anybody from any quarter can speak, and speak truth, because his mind is not cut off from the truth. All he has to do is clear out his passions and then speak.
~ Joseph Campbell
This is my heart. It is a good heart. Weaves a membrane of mist and fire. When we speak love in the flower world My heart is close enough to sing to you in a language too clumsy for human words.
~ Joy Harjo
These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.
~ Wilkie Collins
I know in my mind I would leave you now If I had the strength to I would leave you up To your own devices Will you not talk Can you take pity I don't ask much But won't you speak Please.
~ Dave Matthews Band
For me, prayer is intentional one-on-one time with God. It occurs in the context of personal relationship with God but, more specifically, it is what happens when you are intentionally trying to speak with, listen to, or be with God.
~ James Martin
We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it. Yet, though I speak as genius, I cannot speak for genius. I cannot give nature a voice in my script. I can not give others a voice in my script-without denying their own source, their originality. To do so is to cease responding to the other, to cease being responsible. No one and nothing belong in my script.
~ James P. Carse
To speak, or act, or think originally is to erase the boundary of the self. It is to leave behind the territorial personality. A genius does not have a mind full of thoughts but is the thinker of thoughts, and is the center of a field of vision. It is a field of vision, however, that is recognized as a field of vision only when we see that it includes within itself the original centers of other fields of vision.
~ James P. Carse
Lymond, left to speak first, said agreeably, Quite so. I, King of Flesh, flourishing in my flowers. Come in. I am sensible, sober, and have no designs on your virtue.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute. That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.
~ Agatha Christie
There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak.
~ Agatha Christie
It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!
~ Agatha Christie
An opinionated boor," he [Dr. Stone about Colonel Protheroe] said with heat. "Yes, yes, I know he is dead, and no one should speak ill of the dead. But death does not alter facts. An opinionated boor describes him exactly...
~ Agatha Christie
And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.
~ Aimé Césaire
TRUTH IS ONE of the very foundations upon which the world stands. As this is so, when you speak falsely it is as if you are nudging at the world's foundation. —RABBI MOSHE CHAIM LUZZATTO (1707–1746)
~ Alan Morinis
We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
~ Betsy DeVos
When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.
~ Steven Crowder
I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again.
~ Jay Weatherill
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.
~ John Tiffany
The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.
~ Rae Armantrout