Speak Carefully Quotes

#1. I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it.

Matthew Norman

#2. We must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty to transcend words and concepts to be able to encounter reality.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.

Richmond Akhigbe

#4. You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.

Jennifer Donnelly

#5. Kale turned away from me and stepped to Alex. "I know exactly what that means, and if you say it again, I'll touch you."
"Sorry, dude," Alex said, waving his hands. He flashed Kale a mock frown. "I don't swing that-

Jus Accardo

#6. When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.

Zelig Pliskin

#7. Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.

Vaclav Smil

#8. Allow God to have complete liberty in your life when you speak. Before God's message can liberate other people, His liberation must first be real in you. Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.

Oswald Chambers

#9. I know sometimes things are hard with Mum." "She misses Dad," I said, which was like pointing out that a sky-scraper is tall. Uncle Julian nodded.

Nicole Krauss

#10. when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and the
tongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decides
to open that mouth and speak.

Paul Auster

#11. Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Leonard Cohen

#12. As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Bernard Berenson

#13. When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#14. They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

Dwight Schultz

#15. Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

Louis L'Amour

#16. Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

Alan Dean Foster

#17. I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.

Kangana Ranaut

#18. Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.

Sophia Dembling

#19. One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies ... Be smart choosing your friends.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#20. The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.

John Podhoretz

#21. I've a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don't just hear a hymn. They're singing to God because they haven't found anyone else who will listen.

Courtney Milan

#22. Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.

Cressida Cowell

#23. Republicans say they believe the commission's efforts to work with political groups on training and compliance have kept campaigns within the legal lines and helped to bring down

Anonymous

#24. Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

Jim George

#25. I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors who fight like brave men.

Roberto Bolano

#26. Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

John Paul Caponigro

#27. plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

Jamaica Kincaid

#28. Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds.

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#29. That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.

Emily Giffin

#30. But there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

Barry Lyga