Can't Speak My Mind Quotes

#1. God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#2. When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. When I speak within your mind, it's like I'm speaking to your soul.

Amy Astorga

#4. In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

H.E. Davey

#5. When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

John Lennon

#6. The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.

Hain Ginott

#7. If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Bill Cosby

#8. I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

Ruth Rendell

#9. I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#10. Jefferson reflected, "I think of her (a college infatuation) perhaps too much for my peace of mind. " Nevertheless, he was robbed of his considerable verbal powers when he got the chance to speak to the object of his affections.

John Ferling

#11. Just remember to always be yourself and don't be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud

J.A. Redmerski

#12. Not that I will paint in my own way, live in my own way, speak in my own way - they don't mind that. It even excites them. But what they can't stand is that I hate them when they don't behave in their own way.

John Fowles

#13. Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Deepak Chopra

#14. A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.

Herman Bavinck

#15. A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

George Santayana

#16. None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Lydia M. Child

#17. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

Debra Moffitt

#18. You can speak your mind But not on my time.

Billy Joel

#19. You're always telling me to be more assertive and speak my mind. This is what I look like when I speak my mind. I can drink what I like, I can work where I want to work, I can have sex with anyone I want to have sex with. I don't need public approval.

Anonymous

#20. I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

John Lydon

#21. I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please.

Dave Matthews Band

#22. I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

Sonam Kapoor

#23. I talked some more, let my tongue wag, let my mind run free, and it felt pretty good. It's a wonderful thing to have somebody in your life whom you can say absolutely anything to. Not to have that is almost unthinkable to me.

James Patterson

#24. Have you lost the girl you love?' 'That's what I'm trying to figure out. I can't make up my mind. It all depends what construction you place on the words "I never want to see or speak to you again in this world or the next, you miserable fathead."' 'Did she say that?

P.G. Wodehouse

#25. Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me is mine?

Jeanette Winterson

#26. I can't speak anymore, I open my mouth but nothing comes out. So many things to say. I wonder if you really want to hear it anyway?

Instead, I leave my heavy mind exploding with unfinished thoughts.

Tina J. Richardson

#27. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.

Jennifer Worth

#28. My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant

Tonny K. Brown

#29. Is there anyone nearby you can speak to without words?"

"I don't know. I only know that there are those whose minds I can speak with that, when I show them how, speak back to my mind as well.

Tom Larcombe

#30. I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying.

Alan Sugar

#31. I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

Bat For Lashes

#32. Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

Toby Keith

#33. I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

Erin O'Connor

#34. We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

Hal Holbrook

#35. I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

Yumi Tamura

#36. It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.

Serge Kahili King

#37. stared at it for so long that I became lightheaded, just so I wouldn't lose my focus. If I had, the only thing that would come to mind

Barbara Speak

#38. Speak out your mind and your heart, you won't be bored.

Lights

#39. The Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

Black Elk

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

George McGovern

#41. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

Nana Awere Damoah

#42. I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

Jessica Hahn

#43. Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

Octavia Spencer

#44. In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

Javan

#45. My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

Ravi Zacharias

#46. Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Huston Smith

#47. I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am ...

Jesse Ventura

#48. When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.

Bernadette Roberts

#49. Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#50. Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Ramana Maharshi

#51. We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

Glenn Miller

#52. Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

Victor Hugo

#53. A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.

Carmine Savastano

#54. When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.
("Out Of The Deep")

Walter De La Mare

#55. See with your mind, Speak with your heart,
Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.

B.J. Neblett

#56. People have mentioned, 'Maybe you should try to be more sexy. Look at how this butt stuff propelled this person to the top of the chart; it's amazing!' And I'm like, 'What if I really want to sing something to people?' I speak my mind. I want to be that person people feel they can listen to.

Kiesza

#57. Mind you, Augie knew all about spoilers, but whenever she started talking about the downforce equation, adults stopped the conversation in order to praise her intelligence, which made it all but impossible to speak.

Anonymous

#58. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.

Nikki Rowe

#59. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

Walter Cronkite

#60. It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

Randy Moss

#61. During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.

Amanda Hocking

#62. The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

Pat Barker

#63. I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

Eliza Dushku

#64. When this you see remember me and bare me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find.

Brian Jones
1968

Brian W. Jones

#65. Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#66. 'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

John Fletcher

#67. There is nothing typical about my profession.' Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. 'I don't want to talk about it any longer.

Patrick DeWitt

#68. Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

Sakyong Mipham