Top 100 We Speak Quotes
#1. The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
Ludwig Quidde
#2. Our primary function is speech: questions, and responses selected from memory according to a formula. We speak, but there is little evidence of real comprehension.
Louisa Hall
#3. Failure, failure is so important, it doesn't get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.
J.K. Rowling
#4. In the Buddhist tradition, we speak of the oneness of the body and mind. Whate very happens to the body also happens to the mind....This is a very important encounter (engaging in sex) , not to be done in a casual manner.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#5. We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?
Susan Fletcher
#6. Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not a huge surprise to me that not only can real communication happen, but real relationships can blossom.
Paul Biedermann
#7. First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#8. Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
Allen Tate
#9. There is something more than violence that Nasheenians taught me, and that is the awful brutality of speaking absolute truth. I propose that we begin to unmask ourselves. We speak the truth of ourselves. We tell them just how many of us there are.
Kameron Hurley
#10. When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.
Jack Kornfield
#11. How can we know that we have talent until our words or the manner in which we speak them moves someone?
James Grissom
#12. We speak of love when we destroy nature.
It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.
Toba Beta
#13. We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.
Nelson Mandela
#14. Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Bill Watterson
#15. As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
Horace
#16. Internal bleeding?"
"Indeed," she said, gesturing to a bag of light red fluid. "You pee blood as we speak."
I felt down to my nether regions and blushed. There was a tube in my wee-wee. Rei smiled gleefully.
B. Justin Shier
#17. We speak with one voice," Walt said. "Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.
Rick Riordan
#18. We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.
Martin Luther
#19. If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.
Henry B. Eyring
#20. When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. Jerome
#21. One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Suzanne Curchod
#22. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#23. The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
Ann Veneman
#24. If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us - we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.
David Abram
#25. Before I met with my wife, I loved her very much. I didn't know who she was, but I had a fire inside me for someone I knew existed. Now that she hangs out stars, I still love her, though we speak another language altogether.
Simon Van Booy
#26. Rebellion is not going to go away ... What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped ... The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive ... We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.
Chris Hedges
#27. Once the world sees this Synagogue of Satan as it really is and knows the players, they fear what will happen to them. The world will turn against them and that is happening now as we speak.
Louis Farrakhan
#28. We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
Theo Van Doesburg
#29. After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
J.L. Austin
#30. If we speak of our reason as the impartial bar of judgment we have already taken sides.
Anonymous
#31. Unless we speak praise, we consistently speak poison. Unless we are intentional about giving God glory throughout the day, our days unintentionally give way to grumbling.
Ann Voskamp
#32. I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter."
"It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest."
"It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes.
"We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.
Lloyd Alexander
#33. I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.
Hilary Swank
#34. We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.
George Carlin
#35. Words are reflections. What we speak comes back to us. I prefer being told the truth, so I tell the truth. Within reason.
Marjorie M. Liu
#36. Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.
Peter Kreeft
#37. We can never speak about God rationally as we speak about ordinary things, but that does not mean we should give up thinking about God. We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing.
Joy Williams
#38. If we are to pray well, we too must discover the Lord to whom we speak, and if we use the Psalms in our prayer we will stand a better chance of sharing in the discovery which lies hidden in their words for all generations. For God has willed to make Himself known to us in the mystery of the Psalms.
Thomas Merton
#39. When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
Chogyam Trungpa
#40. Style is the way we speak to the world without words.
Bobbie Thomas
#41. I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th ... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.
Emo Philips
#42. It doesn't matter where we are from, what language we speak or how we look like, it matters that we are all human beings.
Lee Soo-Jun
#43. When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
Karl Barth
#44. We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
#45. Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
Jim Rohn
#46. Hail, Aslan. We hear ans obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know.
C.S. Lewis
#47. Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
Indira Gandhi
#48. Wafa Wanaka, our elders say. Not only does this mean that death is the ultimate peace, it also means that we are not to speak ill of the dead. Once a person has crossed over to the real of the spirits, he takes his transgressions with him, and we speak only of the good. - 'Something Nice from London
Petina Gappah
#49. Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
St. Jerome
#51. By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
Adora Svitak
#52. When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud
#53. I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.
Leigh Newman
#54. Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul Goodman
#55. Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
Fulton J. Sheen
#56. But you have to realize, there is no such thing as this tidy little box you think you have to fold up and fit into; it simply does not exist. That's what I'm learning, learning as we speak.
Tanuja Desai Hidier
#57. It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Nicolas Caussin
#58. Can we speak in flowers.
it will be easier for me to understand.
Nayyirah Waheed
#59. As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#60. Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
Abbas Kiarostami
#61. When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.
Emile Chartier
#62. I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal
#64. 7but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
Anonymous
#65. It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling
Frederick Leboyer
#66. 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
#67. When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us
Anne Rice
#68. When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst
Jeremy Hammond
#70. These days when we speak of politics at all it is with indifference, anger, or "Please, could we talk about something that doesn't make us nauseous?" But there was a time when we could discuss government with hope, pride, and trust in our leaders, and that was when Corazon Aquino was president.
Jessica Zafra
#71. Also, I suppose I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive, after all.
Stephen King
#72. Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we're not proud. We speak about ourselves like we're reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own 'forecasts.
Lauren Handel Zander
#73. My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there."
Joan Rivers
#74. We begin from the heart, in humility and faith in the One to whom we speak. That positions us to receive God's goodness and mercy - both are gifts. When prayers come from our hearts, they will touch God's heart. Such prayers can change our lives and affect the issues we are praying about.
Charles Simpson
#75. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
Richard M. Stallman
#76. How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#77. When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have
Sunday Adelaja
#78. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.
Carl Sagan
#80. We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
George Steiner
#81. Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.
D. Todd Christofferson
#82. Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.
Pope Francis
#84. I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that - and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.
Ricky Ponting
#85. We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
Nate Silver
#86. We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
Oliver Sacks
#87. Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.
David Satcher
#88. The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them - violence.
Chris Hedges
#89. A word of advice," he says, as I stop in his office to say goodbye. "When you're in love with a woman, you shouldn't get involved with other women."
"Noted," I say. "Though, I would like to offer that she is probably sleeping with another man as we speak.
Tarryn Fisher
#90. You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.
Michael Scofield
#91. Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
Edgar Cayce
#92. If we speak poorly about that which we do well ... people will assume we perform poorly!
Dale Carnegie
#93. I appeared several times on Atlantis while I was doing Stargate. And they've mentioned to me before that they'd like me do some, but right now I have nothing specific to report. I know Amanda Tapping is a regular now on the show. But I have no plans to do that as we speak. But I don't know.
Beau Bridges
#94. We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother speak, but it really comes down to if you are the person who is moving amongst the actors and talking to people more, the other one can have a little more time to really watch.
Mark Duplass
#95. Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism.
Louise Hay
#96. [W]hen we speak about people based on what we think, feel, or hope rather than on what we observe or experience, we deprive them of their humanity. We have replaced what they are, in all their fluid vitality, with our own crystallised ideas, opinions, and beliefs.
Steve Hagen
#97. Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.
Horace
#98. Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
Josh Bowman
#99. The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.
Kim Edwards
#100. 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
