Speak Quotes

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

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.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

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.