Top 100 Speaks Quotes
#1. Whose memories are these? Who speaks to her of this gentle time that she is too young to have known herself? There was hardship then, certainly, but not hearts chained and heavy with fear. Who is it that laughs with aged lightheartedness and suggests that this is still a place of promise?
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
#2. They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!
Alex Ferguson
#3. How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.
Ravi Zacharias
#4. Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.
Walt Whitman
#5. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
Linda Hogan
#6. Her singing voice is the sound of a body falling downstairs, and she speaks as if the hangman's hands are at her throat.
Morrissey
#7. You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.
Paulo Coelho
#8. [A safe person] is somebody who speaks the truth in grace.
Donald Miller
#9. The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
Bun E. Carlos
#10. The one who speaks dominates while the one who listens controls.
Deepak Mehra
#11. Whatever color a person's skin, whatever language he speaks, God loves him.
David Frost
#12. Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.
Niles Eldredge
#13. In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being ... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
Thomas Merton
#14. For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.
Leonard Nimoy
#15. You can't let a little thing like total public humiliation stand between you and a good time." T.D. in the series Martha Speaks
Susan Meddaugh
#16. REALITY 4: GOD SPEAKS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE BIBLE, PRAYER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE CHURCH TO REVEAL HIMSELF, HIS PURPOSES, AND HIS WAYS.
Henry T. Blackaby
#17. For he who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know" (12) And "The Wise Man gives instruction Without the use of speech." (13)
Thomas Merton
#18. the pace at which Sean Connery speaks stems from a decision he's made. And every single vowel delivered is with respect for the language. But he delivers it so naturally and with so much humanity that you don't realize that, technically, he is giving a master class in how to deliver a line.
Ron Perlman
#19. Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means Cod, so Babel means 'Gate of God.' But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someone
who speaks in an incomprehensible tongue. The Bible is full of puns.
Neal Stephenson
#20. The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
Chinua Achebe
#21. The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.
Frank Griswold
#23. Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
Lynn Margulis
#24. It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.
Benito Mussolini
#25. Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you.
Pawan Mishra
#26. Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
Donnie Yen
#27. Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right along with the singer. The right song speaks to your soul in a way nothing else can. It's magic.
Cindi Madsen
#28. It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to.
Thomas Merton
#29. Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks
Ted Agon
#30. At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
Dambisa Moyo
#31. When night comes, something speaks
from that soft, fragrant wilderness.
It says, the heart is not a door. But it opens.
We feel in the dark for the hinge.
Carole Glasser Langille
#32. Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have
promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won't contest elections
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#33. God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
Caryll Houselander
#34. Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge1
J. Scott McElroy
#35. Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill
#36. The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.
Jane Yolen
#37. I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
Chigozie Obioma
#38. Order is the cipher by which Mind speaks to mind in the midst of chaos.
Ronald Knox
#39. Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
Martha Beck
#42. An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.
Swami Vivekananda
#44. The Lord's sovereignty over Israel is not an abstract concept. He speaks to the will of Israel, summoning its people to follow him.
Thomas R. Schreiner
#45. The lens feels like another person in the room, a person who never speaks or smiles, who only stares without blinking, never looking away.
Lauren Graham
#46. I'm always for the person who speaks their mind.
Kathy Najimy
#47. Any judgment, any evaluation - even if it approves and speaks a blessing - will be heard as a negation. This is an absolute first principle of this book. Law is an attack. It is heard as a negation by its recipient. All laws are negation. God's law is the negation.
Paul F. M. Zahl
#48. Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.
William Shakespeare
#49. He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
Don DeLillo
#51. God speaks as softly as he can and as loud as he has to.
Rafi Zabor
#52. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
Cheech Marin
#53. The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
Confucius
#54. If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;
Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.
Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird,
My angel, my only
Louis Sachar
#55. Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.
Jodine Turner
#56. We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.
Mark Batterson
#57. The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
#58. I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.
Nia Long
#59. 6There is power in the house of the righteous,[226] But the house of the wicked Is filled with trouble, No matter how much money they have. 7When wisdom speaks Revelation-knowledge is released,[227]
Brian Simmons
#60. It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.
James C. Scott
#61. No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.
Booker T. Washington
#62. Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
#63. What's truly sexy about a woman isn't what she wears. It isn't how much time and attention she spends on her hair. It's no that her bra matches her panties. It's the way she thinks, moves, speaks. That's what's sexy about a woman.
Olivia Cunning
#64. When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
Maria Callas
#65. White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.
Kenya Hara
#66. What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me.
One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that.
Juliet Marillier
#67. Tangaloor, fire-bright
Flame-foot, farthest walker
Your hunter speaks
In need he walks
In need, but never in fear.
Tad Williams
#68. Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
Steven Bochco
#69. I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida
#71. In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.
Joyce Carol Oates
#72. Too often my sister talks like this. She doesn't speak like she's wise for her age, she speaks wise for any age.
Sarah Noffke
#73. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#74. There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#75. But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.
Reggie White
#76. John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?
Jay Leno
#77. I'm fucking good looking and sharp witted! I bet Reed only speaks one language. I'm sharp witted in five! - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#78. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#79. I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
Brett Favre
#80. There is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils
the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.
Iain Banks
#82. You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
Randy Couture
#83. Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.
Dean Koontz
#84. One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say
Voltaire
#85. Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'
Donald Wildmon
#86. I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
Brittany Snow
#87. God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
Henry Blackaby
#88. When a fool speaks,
his tongue ensnares him.
When a fool acts,
his deeds destroy him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#89. I think my track record speaks for myself ... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
Fatou Bensouda
#91. We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
C. G. Jung
#92. Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words
Patricia Kay
#93. Occasionally one speaks ... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order ...
Hans Reichenbach
#94. A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Thomas Carlyle
#95. Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Yo-Yo Ma
#96. I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
Erin Morgenstern
#97. Her fingertips are made of love. When she speaks, her voice is made of love.
Markus Zusak
#98. People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates
#99. Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
Ellen Hopkins
#100. Like most Lebanese, Joumana speaks rapidly, one sentence dovetailing into another, producing guttural words and phrases as if gargling with mouthwash. I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversations with many pauses, pauses replacing words.
Rabih Alameddine
