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I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
I am not the life and soul of the camp, but I do speak a lot throughout the team and to everyone.
If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.
I feel like it's almost my purpose to speak up about my experience so it could help somebody else.
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.
If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!