Top 100 When You Speak Quotes
#1. You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped
Bertolt Brecht
#3. When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.
David Lanz
#5. Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.
Chirag Tulsiani
#6. What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
Erich Segal
#7. When you speak, it should be as if Infinity is speaking.
Yogi Bhajan
#8. God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#10. I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
Carlos Fuentes
#11. You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.
Lester Bowie
#12. When your intentions are honest and pure, when you speak or act from a place of selflessness and love, the feedback and returns are unimaginable and immeasurable.
Nike Campbell-Fatoki
#13. You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.
Cinda Williams Chima
#14. Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.
Mindy Kaling
#15. If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis
Richard Rohr
#16. You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
John C. Maxwell
#17. Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#18. How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don't mean, and do that which you planned against?
Kyle Schmalenberg
#19. In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can't fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It's mixing and editing.
Julie Delpy
#20. Remember, how you speak to people matters, and a lot more than you might realize. Especially when meeting people for the first time, your facial expression, handshake, and eye contact are most important - and one I strongly believe is the most important of all - ENTHUSIASM - when you speak.
Allan London
#21. You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#22. When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.
Helen Thomas
#23. You can recognize the Spirit of Christ within you when you speak to one another or speak of another person with a warm smile instead of with a frown or scowl.
Theodore M. Burton
#24. I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn't working for me when it wasn't working. The world doesn't come crashing down when you speak the truth.
Deb Caletti
#25. When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.
Frances Osborne
#26. Say little. But when you speak, utter gentle words that touch the heart. Be truthful. Express kindness. Abstain from vanity. This is the way.
Dana Perino
#27. When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. When you speak, you must be aware of what you say, how it can be taken and who may hear it. But mostly, if you speak at all, you should know what you're talking about.
Kristen Ashley
#29. When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
Michel Hazanavicius
#30. Encouraging others is a blessing. Take good care of your words when you speak.
Moazzam Shaikh
#31. If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
Julia Roberts
#33. Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?" We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#35. When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.
Chris Oyakhilome
#36. When you speak, allow the insight of our collective humanity to speak through you. When you walk, don't walk for yourself alone; walk for your ancestors and your community. When you breathe, allow the larger world to breathe for you.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#37. Ursus stepped forward. 'Watch your tongue when you speak to the goddess!' he snarled.
The Doctor frowned. 'I think that would make speaking rather difficult,' he said.He stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes to look down on it. 'Therterly inghockigal.' he said.
Jacqueline Rayner
#38. In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.
Asghar Farhadi
#39. When you speak of heaven, let your face light up ... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.
Bud Gardner
#41. When you speak from your heart, everyone listens because God is speaking.
Unknown
#42. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
Evelyn Glennie
#44. When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#45. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Rabih Alameddine
#46. You can speak truth to power, ... but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity."
"The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel
Jack Cady
#47. If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.
Desmond Tutu
#48. When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
Alessandro Nivola
#49. I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. If what you wear says more about who you are then what you say when you speak, then my advice is to keep quiet and wear loud clothing.
Jarod Kintz
#51. You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
Charles Kingsley
#52. Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.
Leonard Cohen
#53. When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
Walter Payton
#54. When you speak of new ties and fresh affections, think you that any can replace those who are gone?
Mary Shelley
#55. When you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.
Carol Grace
#56. When you speak and affirm, you are creating a verbal contract with yourself.
Bryant McGill
#58. Happy Thursday! Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness!! Share a SMILE and make it a great day!
Tracey Edmonds
#59. When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.
Sathya Sai Baba
#60. 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
#61. When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.
Kathleen Hanna
#62. You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.
Hope Solo
#63. I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
Duke Ellington
#64. When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
Dana Scott
#65. Because life is short and it's better when you speak your heart.
Mimi Strong
#66. When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens.
Truth Devour
#67. I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
Billy Connolly
#68. You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.
Benny Hinn
#69. For we have come by different ways to this place ... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.
Robert James Waller
#70. When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud Gardner
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Claire Hamelin Manning
#71. When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.
George Foreman
#72. You'd be surprised who will back down when you speak up.
Gina Greenlee
#73. No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
Saint John Chrysostom
#74. When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.
Kurt Warner
#75. And when you speak with him," I said, "tell him to stop hitting his wife." Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. "It is his Christian duty," he said stiffly, "to discipline his wife, and it is her duty to submit. Did you not listen to what I preached?
Bernard Cornwell
#76. When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust ... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad ...
Abdul Kalam
#78. When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.
Julie Taymor
#79. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#80. There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
John Foster
#81. ... the real secret to charisma is making each person you meet feel that they have your complete attention when they speak to you.
Nick Vujicic
#82. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
#83. It's hard to describe, but there are times when ... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!
Tony Snow
#84. When you grow up around people who don't speak very much, what they do say to you is indelible.
Hope Jahren
#85. Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up.
J.M. Barrie
#86. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#87. People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
Sam Altman
#88. I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
Graham Cooke
#89. There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#90. Are you sure the two of you aren't married? (Bavel)
Why do you ask? (Ewan)
You can barely stand to speak to each other, and yet when the lady walks off you look as if you can already taste her. Smacks of marriage to me. (Bavel)
Kinley MacGregor
#91. PRAYER Dear Lord, teach me to cultivate a thankful heart as a gift to You and to the world around me. Remind me when I grumble and complain that Your will for me is to speak blessings and to be a blessing to everyone I know. Amen.
Carole Lewis
#92. You listen to me now and stop cutting me off. It's rude." She stopped moving and dropped her hand. "You can't tell me what I can and can't do; where I can go and who I can see."
She stopped talking so he requested, "May I speak?"
"Only if you don't piss me off when you do it,
Kristen Ashley
#93. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.
Selenis Leyva
#94. I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.
Tamora Pierce
#95. You have been speaking about William Carey. When I am gone, say nothing about William Carey-speak only about Willam Carey's Saviour.
William Carey
#96. If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.
Tama J. Kieves
#97. The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.
Jan Morris
#98. Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.
Joan Bauer
#99. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
Rosamund Lupton
#100. When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
Richard E. Grant
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