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Children and fools always speak the truth. — Mark Twain

I'm beating down the Internet as we speak. — T.I.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks. — Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John Of Fawsley

There was no one left to speak for me — Martin Niemoller

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. — Lucinda Williams

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace
to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak. — Mark Nepo

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart. — Francine Rivers

You're doing great,' she said. 'You're in Birmingham .' Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn't speak. — Andrew O'Hagan

A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess, Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook. — Erin Morgenstern

I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly. — Marshall Thornton

I wish not to tell you how I feel,
I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free... — Sanhita Baruah

When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms. — Thich Nhat Hanh

A man of your advanced years is surely a little deaf." "Sorry, could you speak up? I can't hear you. — E.L. James

We had told people. We had to untell them. You did it so I wouldn't have to speak. — Jenny Offill

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here. — Katrina Kaif

This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know? — Sarah Dessen

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. — Paul Goodman

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words. — Sophocles

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. — Rebecca Solnit

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. — William S. Burroughs

The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives. — Erin McKean

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us. — St. Jerome

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings — Jonathan Safran Foer

speak - a thing he would never have dared to do — Rudyard Kipling

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me. — Michael Ovitz

I pull away to speak, but he puts his finger over my lips. Shhh, just let me love you, okay? Don't think. Just feel. — M. Leighton

Unless I speak, you won't see me. — Marty Rubin

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key. — Lorrie Moore

As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. — Horace

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home. — Louis L'Amour

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. — John French Sloan

Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak. — Armin Wiebe

Genius speaks only to genius. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth — P.C. Cast

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English. — Hiroyuki Sanada

What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows? — William Shakespeare

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? — William Shakespeare

Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all. — Madeline Hunter

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. — St. Jerome

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor. — James Russell Lowell

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say. — T. J. Jagodowski

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence. — Gautama Buddha

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now. — Louise Hay

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. — Philip James Bailey

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not? — Susan Fletcher

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so. — Henry David Thoreau

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time. — Alan Lightman

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart. — Abbey Lincoln

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech. — Jim Jordan

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. — Benjamin Franklin

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for — Chantal Kreviazuk

Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it's not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do. — Lilit Marcus

I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again. — Charlaine Harris

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them. — Jim Butcher

I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh — Sachin Tendulkar

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill

All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ... — Grant Morrison

Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up. — Euginia Herlihy

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense — Morton Blackwell

What we can't speak, we say in silence. — Hillary Jordan

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths. — Anodea Judith

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak. — Elfriede Jelinek

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak. — Zooey Deschanel

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. — Stan Laurel

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. — Jonathan Kozol

As humans we speak one language ... — Avril Lavigne

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both. — Jessica Sanchez

If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up. — Banana Yoshimoto

If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival. — Randy Weber

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. — Samuel Johnson

long to taste the honeyed breeze and touch the rubied apple's flavor - to speak with soft conversing leaves, the songs of sky's white clouds to savor. — Marcia Lynn McClure

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. — S.I. Hayakawa

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs. — Brother Lawrence

You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you. — Robin McKinley

She can speak three languages, but she can tell the truth in none of them. — Philippa Gregory

We almost never speak
I don't feel welcome anymore
baby what happened, please tell me? — Taylor Swift

If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up. — Bill Cosby

When you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own. — Carol Grace

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer. — Israelmore Ayivor

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. — Joe Murray

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. — Raj Thackeray

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian. — Pauly D

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen. — Martha Bolton

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment. — David Sedaris

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. — Michel De Montaigne

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. — Bell Hooks