Top 100 Do Not Speak Quotes
#1. Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.
Elena Ferrante
#2. Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak.
Lao-Tzu
#3. Please Lady ... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.
Darren Shan
#4. All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.
Jodi Picoult
#7. For us, silence is all we have ever known. I do not speak because I do not know what to say. He does not speak because he has no interest in talking.
Alessandra Torre
#8. When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
Mitch Albom
#10. Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.
David Gemmell
#11. Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
Allan Lokos
#12. Now you die while we live on, and you've no one to blame but your selves. So do not speak of betrayal behind my back, humans. For the Great Betrayal is your shame, not mine. ~ Ayden
Rachel Haimowitz
#14. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.
John F. Kennedy
#15. Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
David Mamet
#16. I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.
Marcus Garvey
#17. Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Publilius Syrus
#18. I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
David Miliband
#19. Do not speak to me of martyrdom, of men who die to be remembered on some parish day. I don't believe in dying though, I too shall die. And violets like castanets will echo me. SONIA SANCHEZ
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#20. I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel De Montaigne
#21. I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.
Greg Behrendt
#22. Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell
#23. Does this have something to do with the donkey and the train thing?" "Hush! Quiet you! We do not speak of such things!
Montana Ash
#24. Body is there, filled with so much, so much to tell you. But if you do not speak the language, you will be deaf to its secrets. My job," he told me, "is to teach our residents this important language.
Anonymous
#25. It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#28. I do not speak. I smoke. Throat tight, as if fingers are squeezing it.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#29. You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now
Guy Mankowski
#31. If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Ellery Adams
#32. The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham
Tom Cunningham
#33. Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
Laozi
#34. I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
Helen Prejean
#35. We do not speak of clowns in this office. You know that.
Cecilia London
#36. Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-
Elizabeth Gaskell
#37. I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.
Ken Starr
#39. I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
Adam Mansbach
#40. Because they have learned not to get caught in notions or representations, they do not speak as though they alone hold the truth, and they do not think that those in other traditions are going the wrong way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#42. We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.
Lundy Bancroft
#44. I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee. 134.
Anonymous
#46. Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
#47. I write for these women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence will save us, but it won't.
Audre Lorde
#48. Warriors do not speak of such feelings. I love you too, son, but I won't be telling you so.
Julie Garwood
#49. Do you wish people to speak well of you?
Then do not speak at all yourself.
[Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous?
N'en dites point.]
Blaise Pascal
#50. Would you?" said Gabriel to Will, hotly. "If it was your family?" His lip curled. "Never mind. It's not as if you know the meaning of loyalty - "
"Gabriel." Gideon's voice was a reprimand to his brother. "Do not speak to Will in that manner.
Cassandra Clare
#51. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
W. Somerset Maugham
#52. When the urge arises in your mind To feelings of desire or angry hate, Do not act! Be silent, do not speak! And like a log of wood be sure to stay.
Santideva
#53. Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
Dogen
#54. In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
Katie Leclerc
#55. Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
Tim Ward
#56. I remember more and see more than you, she said. And will for a considerable time. We do not speak to many, and the spirit of horses does not reveal himself to anyone. There is magic in your bones. You must reckon with it.
Katherine Arden
#57. Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
Guru Nanak
#58. Do not speak before your master, whose wit is greater than yours. And
J.R.R. Tolkien
#59. I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
Franz Kafka
#60. I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter."
"It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest."
"It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes.
"We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.
Lloyd Alexander
#61. To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats
#62. If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.
Jason Evert
#63. We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
Carl Sagan
#64. Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#65. Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning ... because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.
Hiromu Arakawa
#66. I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.
Emerson Fittipaldi
#67. Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon.
I want to erase the lines so I can be me.
If we do not speak, who will?
Staceyann Chin
#69. Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#70. I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiority.
Gore Vidal
#71. Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans?
John N. Gray
#72. I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. There was a lot more to that song,' said Sam, 'all about Mordor. I didn't learn that part, it gave me the shivers. I never thought I should be going that was myself!'
'Going to Mordor! Cried Pippin. 'I hope it won't come to that!'
'Do not speak that name so loudly!' said Strider
J.R.R. Tolkien
#74. Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.
Gautama Buddha
#75. Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
Alice Sebold
#76. So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.
David Malouf
#77. Life in turn organises itself along deep, observable tendrils that do not speak of discrete, careful, artistic intervention, rather scream of haphazard chance and the emergency of survival.
John Zande
#78. If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.
Chris Rose
#79. The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#80. Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether.
Joseph Campbell
#81. The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.
Barack Obama
#82. People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
Bernard Pivot
#83. We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.
Peter Julian Eymard
#84. If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
Bell Hooks
#86. Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Gautama Buddha
#87. Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
Sylvia Plath
#89. When we don't like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about "termination of potential life." Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.
Neal A. Maxwell
#91. Those who do not speak the words of God with humility must be advised that when they apply medicine to the sick, they must first inspect the poison of their own infection, or else by attempting to heal others, they kill themselves.
Gregory The Great
#92. I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left. Do not speak to me of being a Shadowhunter. I am not one of them. I refuse to be.
Cassandra Clare
#93. I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
#95. Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
Lao-Tzu
#96. True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.
Laozi
#97. Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought that was Shakespeare." "William was, or course, quite good," Flora said. "But no one can compare to Jane Austen.
Krista McGee
#98. Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense
have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?
John Banville
#99. Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#100. Do not speak wickedness, Tania. God can yet deliver us, if He chooses. If not, we shall glorify Him with our deaths. Jonah Havalseth
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