Top 100 Speak For Quotes
#1. IT'S EASY to poke fun at nonsensical office speak. For one thing, it sounds exhausting: a colleague might "reach out," "drill down," and promise to "circle back" in a single e-mail. But by signaling membership in a white-collar tribe, meaningless jargon can be quite powerful.
Anonymous
#2. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.
Carl Sagan
#3. You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.
Samuel Rutherford
#4. Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.
Ronald Coase
#5. Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, "My work speaks for itself," but the truth is, our work doesn't speak for itself.
Austin Kleon
#6. Betimes I will - to the weird sisters. (140) More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, All causes shall give way. I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
William Shakespeare
#7. As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
Paul Robeson
#8. Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.
Curtis Stone
#9. Don't let anyone speak for you, and don't rely on others to fight for you.
Michelle Obama
#10. 8I will hear what God the LORD will speak, For He will speak peace To His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly.
Anonymous
#11. I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
Bret Easton Ellis
#12. It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
Hannah Kent
#13. Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.
Emmitt Smith
#14. When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.
Oscar Romero
#15. I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
Michael Che
#16. Another explained, I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment - you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.
Sophia Dembling
#17. We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.
Peter Singer
#18. As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.
Lee Hirsch
#19. Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty," the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. "No man can speak for God.
Erika Johansen
#20. Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.
Paul Oakenfold
#21. It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does!
- Grim Tuesday
Garth Nix
#22. Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
Janny Wurts
#23. In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.
Tyler Oakley
#24. I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.
Alejandro Zambra
#25. Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.
Gerald Durrell
#26. My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
Aaron Paul
#27. There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Mark Twain
#28. It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. Let your work speak for itself:
If poor, it will remain silent.
If average, it will whisper.
If good, it will talk.
If great, it will shout.
If genius, it will sing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
Julie Burchill
#32. Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it."
William Mapother
#34. On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
Sharon Bolton
#35. The sound of the rain faded away and she kissed him, letting herself be as honest as she'd wanted to be, letting her kiss speak for everything she was afraid to say with words.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#36. A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
Jeffrey Fry
#37. A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.
Behdad Sami
#38. Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.
Ledisi
#39. Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.
Steve Jobs
#40. I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.
Gordon Parks
#42. 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
#43. Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Henry L. Stimson
#44. I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
Joe Biden
#45. Careless words stab like a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing. Proverbs 12:18 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rescue of those who are crushed. Proverbs 31:8
Wendy Duke
#46. Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.
Vern Poythress
#48. My buildings will be my legacy ... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Julia Morgan
#49. The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
#50. I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Tom Stoppard
#51. Our passion for fear consumes us and gives birth to the imaginary. Once fear is unleashed, it feeds upon us and rips us apart like a wild animal. Its hold is great, narrow is the escape and treacherous the road. I know of what I speak, for I was once his victim.
Nancy B. Brewer
#52. The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
David Seabury
#53. It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
Richard Parks Bland
#54. I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.
Common
#55. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
#56. We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.
Jacques Derrida
#57. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me!
Charles Dickens
#58. I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.
Kristin Davis
#59. I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#60. A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.
Henry Cavill
#61. There were so many who did wish to speak. For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings of her course.
Anonymous
#62. To me [my marriage to Kim Kardashian] was real. I would never go through something or do something that wasn't real or I didn't believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.
Kris Humphries
#63. The who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.
Oscar Romero
#64. No writer can impose his own standards onto any other, nor claim to speak for the whole genre.
Mary Karr
#65. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her. So
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#66. I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.
Kool Keith
#67. In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.
Eric Heiden
#68. The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.
Alfred Marshall
#69. I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
Allison Tolman
#70. We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#71. Did the Ancient Greeks ever write anything funny - like slapstick? I mean, I think I speak for everyone when I say that there's nothing wrong with a little bit of well-written physical comedy.
Elle Lothlorien
#72. I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
Dr. Seuss
#73. I speak for everyone here today," he tells us, "when I say that you two - Lily and Loren - are the strongest people we've all ever had the honor to meet.
Krista Ritchie
#74. Nothing will inflame your enemies more than your silence. Give them nothing. Nothing to accuse you with. Nothing to condemn you. Let your actions speak for themselves. Never talk to an enemy, but listen always.
Elizabeth Hunter
#75. My life must speak for me, when I can no longer speak for myself.
Carlos Wallace
#76. Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them - usually - but lose the experience itself. We
Octavia E. Butler
#77. I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
Olivia Palermo
#78. You can't speak for the people unless you're able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?
DMX
#79. I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
Kevin Bacon
#80. FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.
Hazel Hawke
#81. I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.
Vladimir Guerrero
#82. I've never had a problem with someone saying "yeah you're pretty, but you can't rap." In fact, I've heard things about other artists, opposed to me. To make a long story short, I've never had a problem with that. My skills speak for themselves.
Jacki-O
#83. Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#84. I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.
Jared Leto
#85. I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.
Wangechi Mutu
#86. With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.
Ice-T
#87. And there was the true artistry of a golden tongue. To be able to speak for an hour without revealing anything. To speak without leaving the impression that your words, by the hundreds, were full of empty air.
Ted Kosmatka
#89. Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.
Megan Alexander
#91. Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.
Denis Waitley
#92. When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'
John Roberts
#93. I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.
Kaki King
#94. I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira
#95. Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.
Julie Andrews
#96. Your parents, your friends, your enemies politicians and teachers - all these voices will try to speak for you. Sometimes, it seems easier to let them. But then, you've lost more than your voice. You've lost yourself.
Amy Fellner Dominy
#97. I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
Harold Pinter
#98. If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.
Heather Brooke
#99. The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
Dean Bakopoulos
#100. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
Peter Shaffer
