Speak Quotations | Page 3

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

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

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.

I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

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

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

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.

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

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

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?

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.

For me, I met my husband when I was going full steam ahead of what I wanted in my career. We sort of intersected and were like, 'Oh, hi, hello!' We were both on our way somewhere to speak and then just kept going together.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

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

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that it might not be sane for one to speak about himself for many, many, many years in a row. At the same time, I felt the story of 'Radiance of Tomorrow' pulling at me because of the first book.

We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

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.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

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

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.