Speak Quotes

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

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.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Writers speak stench.