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Quote:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.[Dwight Eisenhower]

Quote:The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?[Siddhartha Buddha]

Quote:An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.[Edmund Burke]

Quote:Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.[Jimi Hendrix]

Quote:He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.[Mark Twain]

Quote:I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.[Oliver Wendell Holmes]

Quote:Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.[Oliver Wendell Holmes]

Quote:That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.[Dorothy Parker]

Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.[Oliver Wendell Holmes]

Quote:What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Quote:Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.[Mother Teresa]

Quote:Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.[W.J. Cameron]

Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote:The wise speak only of what they know.[J.R.R. Tolkien]

Quote:When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.[Thomas Jefferson]

Quote:Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?[Clarence Darrow]

Quote:Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. [Ernest Hemingway]

Quote:Examine what is said, not him who speaks. [Arab Proverb]

Quote:It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. [Abigail Van Buren]

Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

Quote:Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? [Clarence Darrow]

Quote:The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. [Jerome K. Jerome]

Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs]

Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs]

Quote:He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. [Confucius]

Quote:Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. [Aristotle]

Quote:The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. [Robert Frost]

Quote:He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. [Ausonius]



Definitions of: speak

Definition: To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.

Definition: To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

Definition: To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

Definition: To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

Definition: To give sound; to sound.

Definition: To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

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