We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?

Animals in the streets have tough lives, so it's up to all of us to speak out if we ever witness them being abused.

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.

People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I don't think the important part of making music is the method used but rather the spirit put into it, so to speak.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

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

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

I couldn't do anything without faith. I couldn't open up my eyes, I couldn't walk, I couldn't speak, I couldn't sing.

I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

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