Top 100 Speaks Quotes
#1. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.
George Orwell
#2. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
#3. Your work speaks for you.
Rands
#5. How is it that a kiss can say so much?
Saying I love you is huge, but to kiss someone who has told you that means everything. A kiss speaks the truth, and I know. I know in his kisses, that he means every single word.
Heather Gunter
#6. The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".
Gary North
#7. But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
Alvin Ailey
#8. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.
David Levithan
#9. Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
Anna Friel
#11. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.
Jay Carney
#12. When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
Akshay Vasu
#13. I don't care anymore. Even if she never speaks to me again because of the press, she's worth it. She makes me a person, not just a wish granter.
Jackson Pearce
#14. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
Kevin Rudd
#15. The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
Molly Parker
#16. All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.
Carl Jung
#17. One even speaks of 'globalization' of it, in every field of human activities, where 'fashion' or entertainment have very little to do
Saveros Pou
#18. We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.
Vladimir Putin
#19. American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Don McLean
#20. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.
George Steiner
#21. On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins
#22. Touch speaks to us on levels, so much deeper than the intellect can comprehend, going to the root of us, to levels of comprehension we can't ignore.
Elliot Mabeuse
#23. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#24. If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
Ken Robinson
#25. Yet, it amazes me that anyone would give heed to a man who speaks such hatred.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. Learn to follow the quiet voice within that speaks in feelings rather than words; follow what you 'hear' inside, rather than what others may be telling you to do.
Bob Proctor
#27. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#28. A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H.L. Mencken
#29. The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
Rachel Held Evans
#31. While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
Rachel Held Evans
#32. Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)
Franz Liszt
#33. Start where you are right at this very moment, capture everything you are thankful for, and then carry on with that feeling inside. You will be surprised at how far carrying that emotion will take you!
Tina Mitchell
#34. Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular.
Aristotle.
#36. The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
Cormac McCarthy
#37. A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
Adrienne Bailon
#38. A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
Steve Albini
#39. He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian
#40. Only absurdities need to be defended. Truth speaks for itself.
Stefan Emunds
#41. Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Shimon Peres
#42. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#43. Does God write?
No, never.
God speaks,
Never writes at all.
Gita was spoken
Bible in Church is read aloud
Santosh Kumar
#44. When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.
Nina Jacobson
#45. It speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you're doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss.
Anne Lamott
#46. Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Maya Angelou
#47. Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.
Ana Ortega
#48. 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
#49. Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.
Ina May Gaskin
#50. I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close
on my own peace, I wanted to close
the peace of my love in my heart
like dew in a dark rose."
From "Philip Speaks
Caryll Houselander
#51. He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.
Victor Serge
#52. I don't think their mummy and daddy told them they were little sunbeams for Jesus.
Louise Rennison
#53. I have been so alone on this journey, cut off from my past. However hard I try, I will always feel alien and strange. And now I've stumbled on a fellow outsider, one who speaks my language without saying a word.
Christina Baker Kline
#54. I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
Rod Stewart
#55. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin
#56. You cannot rush God's timing.
When the Lord speaks a word into your life, it is like a seed. Is your confidence in God's seed?
T.D. Jakes
#57. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.
Hilary Mantel
#58. Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously ...
Gerard Van Der Leeuw
#59. Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Charles De Gaulle
#60. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas Hughes
#61. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Jean Paul
#62. A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#63. Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.
Vitor Belfort
#64. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
James Russell Lowell
#65. My father speaks for himself, through his music.
Ziggy Marley
#66. Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
Daisaku Ikeda
#67. He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
Chanakya
#68. Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.
John C. Maxwell
#69. Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.
Brian Helgeland
#71. A simple touch, but it speaks so much to me. It's the way I would touch Circ - the way he would touch me. More'n a touch - a feeling. These two mean a great deal to each other, that much is as clear as the cloudless sky above us.
David Estes
#72. He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.
Chanakya
#74. Nature speaks to me as if I were its beloved daughter. The mountain tells me: "You have my strength." The lakes tell me: "You have my peace and my calm." The sun tells me: "Shine like me, go beyond yourself. Listen.
Paulo Coelho
#75. God gets it. When you reach out to him, he's not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh - he speaks every language. He understands.
Max Lucado
#76. But while God speaks truth to our hearts day by day, the enemy speaks lies to our minds constantly. And the way we manage our daily thoughts, determines which father we get our identity from.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#77. In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.
Megan Smolenyak
#78. I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.
Derek Donais
#79. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.
Zahed Haftlang
#80. Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
Alexander P. De Seversky
#81. I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
Penn Jillette
#82. When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.
Dwayne Johnson
#84. Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.
Lawrence E. Corbridge
#85. It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
Anton Bruckner
#87. I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.
Mairead Corrigan
#88. Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.
Celine Dion
#89. When he speaks into my hair, it is barely a whisper. 'Willow, it's never too late. And there's always a way to begin again.
Autumn Doughton
#90. We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
Carrie Fisher
#91. I know, darling. Your body speaks to me in ways your mouth would never agree to confessing.
Sai Marie Johnson
#92. The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#93. Speak out your mind and your heart, you won't be bored.
Lights
#94. When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Ella Maillart
#95. I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
#96. I know you are reading this poem
in a room where too much has happened for you to bear
where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed
and the open valise speaks of flight
but you cannot leave yet.
Adrienne Rich
#97. The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.
Laozi
#99. Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.
The Unknown
#100. Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
Ramakrishna
