Speak Quotes

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

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.