He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don’t have a foundation, the roof isn’t going to stand.

since for me speaking French is like speaking without saying anything somehow – with no responsibilities, the way we speak in a dream.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one’s self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what’s going on around them, it makes them think.

I’m committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

In English, I’m a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that’s a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that’s why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

I do think that taking these sort of natural mind-opening and altering drugs does have an effect. Doors and windows that you didn’t even know were in the house are open and you’re seeing views you’ve never noticed before. Even though, when you come down, the world sort of goes back to the way it was, an inkling of that transformed vision and experience of the world remains. I think it’s a little bit medicinal, and over time it sort of builds up a new experience of the world. That’s when I think smoking pot and doing drugs is really good for you, spiritually speaking.

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.

I’d be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn’t happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

The topic of limits is a significant inquiry of the Jewish individuals on the grounds that the Jews are the incredible specialists of intersection limits. They have a feeling of personality inside themselves that doesn’t allow them to cross limits with others.

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Gobbledygook could be a word invented by God to describe speaking in tongues

To be able to speak, listen, and understand the language of love is a greater education than any degree.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

As far as I’m concerned, I just speak the truth.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I’m tired of pretending I’m not special.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Went from makin’ tuna sandwiches to makin’ the news. I started speakin’ my mind and tripled my views.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge anyone to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.

If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

And once he had got really drunk on wine, then he would speak no language but Latin.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Be confident, be yourself, and let your success do the talking.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Generally speaking, the good stuff comes in on Tuesday: the seafood is fresh, the supply of prepared food is new, and the chef, presumably, is relaxed after his day off

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.