Speak famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
-- Aaron McGruder -
Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.
-- Aaron Swartz -
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad...
-- Abdul Kalam -
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.
-- Abdullah Ocalan -
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Speak the language of the person you want to become.
-- Adam Braun -
Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
-- Adam Clymer -
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.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
-- Aeschylus -
Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.
-- Afonso Van-Dunem -
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
-- Al Nichol -
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
-- Alain Badiou -
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
-- Alain de Botton -
I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.
-- Alan Goldsher -
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
-- Alan Lightman -
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
-- Alan Perlis -
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.
-- Alanis Morissette -
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
-- Albert Camus -
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
-- Albert Camus -
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
-- Albert Ellis -
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
-- Albert Pike -
We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.
-- Alexandra Ivy -
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.
-- Alfred de Musset -
How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Kat looked at Hale. "I've never heard Marcus talk this much." "Yeah," Hale whispered. "I'm trying to decide if I like it." Just then, Marcus took the ruler and struck Eddie in the stomach. "Hale men speak from the diaphragm!" Hale nodded. "I definitely like it.
-- Ally Carter -
Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
-- Alvin Ailey -
I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.
-- Amber Riley -
I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker
-- America Ferrera -
Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.
-- Amit Abraham -
Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak.
-- Amit Ray -
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
-- Amy Dickinson -
In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
-- Amy Hempel -
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
-- Amy Tan -
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
-- Anais Nin -
Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.
-- Anders Hejlsberg -
We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.
-- Andre Derain -
In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
-- Andy Rooney -
Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
-- Andy Stanley -
I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
-- Anna Held -
Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.
-- Anna Karina -
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
-- Anne Bronte -
I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
-- Anne Heche -
when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us
-- Anne Rice -
If animals could speak, mankind would weep.
-- Anthony Douglas -
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.
-- Anthony Minghella -
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
-- Anthony of Padua -
It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
-- Anton Bruckner -
I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
-- Aphra Behn -
I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
-- April Winchell -
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.
-- Arcangela Tarabotti -
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
-- Aristotle -
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
-- Aristotle -
But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
-- Arthur Cayley -
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
-- Arthur Golden -
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
-- Arthur Hertzberg -
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
-- Arthur Miller -
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
-- Arthur Symons -
It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
-- Ashley Judd -
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos -
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
-- Avital Ronell -
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
-- Ayn Rand -
When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.
-- Azealia Banks -
The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.
-- B. B. Warfield -
Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
-- Balian of Ibelin -
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
-- Barbara Deming -
It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
-- Barbara Marciniak