Quotes tagged ‘Speaking’

(26 total)

“Solving this puzzle will not bring you peace. You already know that. Your heart isn’t in it.”

“The older I get the more I realize that it is important to know the difference between when I should speak and when I should listen. I am not well-versed in many subjects that I care about so I listen and read to those who are.”

— Roxane Gay, twitter.com

“Ash: Eli! You can speak?! Eli: In here I can. It's your trip, Jefe. Ash: Nice, you know I've always wanted to talk to you. Uh, just don't mention the stuff I do in the trailer when we're there alone. Eli: Never. Ash: All right then.”

— James Eagan, Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams, Bruce Campbell, imdb.com

“Speak your mind when necessary, but do it with respect and in love.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Words can be meager things. Sometimes they fall short.”

— Jack LoGiudice, Charles H. Eglee, Frank Darabont, Dale Horvath, Jeffrey DeMunn, imdb.com

“Amy: Absolutely, sir! I won't just head it up, I will head and shoulders it up. I will dive in, and swim around it, and just be altogether go-good with it. Holt: Be more articulate when you speak the children. Amy: Yes, sir, I will make better mouth.”

— Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor, Amy Santiago, Melissa Fumero, imdb.com

“Speak only that which will bring you honor.”

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib, amazon.com

“At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about....Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer.....Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do.....Some things you say because there's no other cho…”

— Stacy McKee, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Over time, I developed the confidence to stop trying to emulate others and to lead in a way that felt comfortable and true to me, it made all the difference. So trust yourself and trust your own voice. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to chang…”

— Melinda Gates, fortune.com

“The difficulty of speaking out in a small world means we must listen to those with the bravery to do it.”

— Gwenda Bond, twitter.com

“Seems to me you can open your mouth and make noise, or you can open it and make sound, and learning to tell when you’re doing one or the other is probably what wisdom is.”

— Maggie Stiefvater, twitter.com

“Talking can take us off the track, knock us off our center and kill our dreams when we speak mindlessly.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.”

— V.C Andrews, amazon.com

“The women, I conjecture, were called doves by the Dodonaeans, because they were barbarians, and they seemed to chatter like birds; but after a time, when the woman spoke intelligibly to them, they presently reported that the dove had spoken with a human voice; for as long as she used a barbarous lan…”

— Herodotus, amazon.com

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, poetryfoundation.org

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

— Frances Ann Lebowitz, amazon.com

“It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.”

— Sarah Kay, onbeing.org

“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”

— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com

“'I don't think...' 'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com