Speak Quotes

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.