I Have Spoken Quotes

#1. I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. is not the time you spend with someone, it is what happens in that time. I have known people for years, and yet never met the real person inside, if there is one. Others I have spoken with for only an hour or two, and yet what was said had meaning and honesty that will last forever.

Anne Perry

#3. I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Chinua Achebe

#4. I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.

Thomas Paine

#5. I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.

Ben Bernanke

#6. I have spoken softly, gone my ways softly, all my days, as behoves one who has nothing to say, nowhere to go, and so nothing to gain by being seen or heard.

Samuel Beckett

#7. I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

Narendra Modi

#8. [N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!

Emily Oster

#10. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Anonymous

#11. Please, let me explain why I have spoken about things that should never be discussed, and which I will never mention again. "Martha

Anita Diamant

#12. One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Mercedes McCambridge

#13. The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

Kofi Annan

#14. The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

Ted Cruz

#15. I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

Clayton Christensen

#16. I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

John Waters

#17. First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.

Epictetus

#18. I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

Christina Aguilera

#19. I have spoken to world leaders and encouraged them to raise the education budgets of their countries and pushed powerful nations to give greater education aid to developing ones.

Malala Yousafzai

#20. I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind.

Susanna Clarke

#22. I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Jack LaLanne

#23. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. - JOHN 15:11

David Jeremiah

#24. I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.

Ramsay Wood

#25. I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Aldous Huxley

#26. I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#28. It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

Margaret Sanger

#29. You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

Rumi

#30. if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, x turns from its evil, y I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

Anonymous

#31. I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

Karl Popper

#32. I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

George W. Bush

#33. I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

David Antin

#34. It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

Dylan Moran

#35. In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#36. Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

David Starr Jordan

#37. I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives. Sometimes these changes happen as inner realizations - "This is what I have to do" - or they arise from the external when something suddenly happens.

Eckhart Tolle

#38. Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Doris Grumbach

#39. I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Sergei Bubka

#40. 63. The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you - they are full of the Spirit[34] and life.

Anonymous

#41. I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Jack Kent Cooke

#42. Christ, too, will forgive, if only you attain to forgiving yourself ... Oh, no, no, do not believe that I have spoken a blasphemy: even if you do not attain to reconciliation with yourself and forgiveness of yourself, even then He will forgive you for your intention and for your great suffering.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#43. Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

Adora Svitak

#44. Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.

Mitchell Reiss

#45. I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Publilius Syrus

#46. Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

John Cleese

#47. Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I can finally say this: go drown yourself, you self-righteous little bitch.

Seanan McGuire

#48. The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it ... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Alain Juppe

#49. Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?

John Mellencamp

#50. I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Deb Caletti

#51. I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#52. If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.

Erin Merryn

#53. I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

Charles Bronfman

#54. Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but o I am slow of speech and of tongue." 11Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Anonymous

#55. I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have made things better. But looking back, I didn't know what they were. As a friend, I was pretty much useless, apparently.

Megan Crewe

#56. Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - as long as I keep my senses, at least.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#57. I want you to think about this for a minute. What would you rather have? Words that can be spoken lightly and then taken back so easily, would you rather actions?

Katie Ashley

#58. I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

John Steinbeck

#59. This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

Albert Camus

#60. I shouldn't have spoken like that.'
'People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions.

M.L. Stedman

#61. Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#62. I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#63. An hour ago, I would have sworn that a man's body wouldn't fit in a standard trash bag, and that even if it did, it'd be too heavy to lift."
"Pieces always fit better than the whole," he said. "And a corpse weighs less after you drain the blood."
"Spoken like a true psychopath.

Rachel Vincent

#64. I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.

Jonathan Demme

#65. I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.

Cus D'Amato

#66. There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person

James Frey

#67. Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

#68. Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before so blessedly what it is to have a friend. When he had spoken some sound words of sympathy and encouragement, we sat down to consider the question, What was to be done?

Charles Dickens

#69. Walking in the dark streets of Seoul under the almost full moon. Lost for the last two hours. Finishing a loaf of bread and worried about the curfew. I have not spoken for three days and I am thinking, Why not just settle for love? Why not just settle for love instead?

Jack Gilbert

#70. Sometimes I accidentally walk into the places where I and you had spoken before, existed before, which still have the smell of
your memories, all of a sudden it starts feeling like I have entered a dark room without a door anywhere. Where I can always hear that song I used to love once before.

Akshay Vasu

#71. Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

John Ruskin

#72. My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

Pierre Loti

#73. I people the universe with forms in my own likeness. For I have not yet spoken of the sun.

Albert Camus

#74. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.

William Kent Krueger

#75. All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Gerald R. Ford

#76. O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

Moses

#77. Nothing else so inspires and heartens people as words of appreciation. You and I may soon forger the words of encouragement and appreciation that we utter now, but the person to whom we have spoken them may treasure them and repeat them to themselves over a lifetime

Dale Carnegie

#78. I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people

Matt Bomer

#79. Hmm... 'our' country? I have not spoken in this manner in some years. But Wakanda is my home. Wakanda is our home.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#80. Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

John McWhorter

#81. Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.'
'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

Eloisa James

#82. Lamb said, 'If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.' He tapped Moody's shoulder with his foot. 'Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.

Mick Herron

#83. Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal.

Jae Hee

#84. I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.

Tom Rath

#85. Basically I'm in the idea business
whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.

Frank Zappa

#86. I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.

Arsenius The Great

#87. ... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

Nazim Hikmet

#88. Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, ... he turned to his friend and said, Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?

Plutarch

#89. I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.

Garfield Sobers

#90. What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not always just; but if you do not listen to it, then you will never understand justice.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#91. If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.

Khloe Kardashian

#92. I am not going to say I have never spoken with Bill Simmons because I have. I respect him greatly.

Katie Nolan

#93. I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

Spoken Reasons

#94. I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

Antonin Artaud

#95. I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

Gustav Klimt

#96. That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

#97. I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

Laurie Notaro

#98. She said she'd have spoken years ago, only she thought I wouldn't. And I never spoke to her because I was sure she wouldn't speak to me. Isn't it strange how people misunderstand each other?

L.M. Montgomery

#99. It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.

Dexter Palmer

#100. I don't have to be logical. I'm a leopard. We're considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)

Amy Neftzger