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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!
When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.
The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.
When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.