Best expression & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.”

World Real Whole Character Beautiful Law Choices Speak Force Expression Materials Capacity Rhythm Real World Cosmic Delicate Brutal Life Choices

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.”

Mean Stills Light Government Together Speak Expression Let Me Remains Stations Going Out Closing Earnestness Parliamentary Closing Down Parliamentary Government

Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.”

People Two Different Form Speak Expression

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.”

Knows Years Speak Language Perfect Views Expression Years Ago Point Of View

Author:Jose Maria Aznar

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"”

Said Reality Eye Names Speak Expression Masters Eternal Concepts His Eyes Mysticism Scholar Transcendent Transient Disarming

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.”

Love Needs Feels Action Speak Mystery Expression Assuming Modesty Love Always Actions Speak Louder Than Words Actions Speak Louder

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.”

Source: So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine

“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.”

Soul Self Light Eye Speak Clear Air Feet Expression Ears Dear Loud Grass Organs Sole Mud Carpet Self Expression Residents Scorned Asphalt

Author:Barbara Holland

“The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.”

World Way Play Life Is Speak Expression One Way Consistently Commonplace

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.”

World Want Spirit Poetry Speak Silence Principles Creativity Knowing Poet Expression Relation Longing Busy Internals Poetic Mystical Bent Fruition Emanate Enigmatic Mystical Experiences

Author:Jacques Maritain

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.”

Source: Writing for children and teen-agers

“When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!”

Men Ideas Hate Three Speak Freedom Stupid Expression Fool Circumstances Honour Three Things Freedom Of Expression

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the one hand, there are expressions of admiration for the reportedly virgin mother of Jesus, but other portions of scripture speak quite accommodatingly of polygamy.”

Long Hands Mother Jesus Speak Social Sex Moral Expression Lists Scripture Admiration Portions Virgins Polygamy Unclear

Book:Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

“People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.”

People Want Speak Path Strange Expression What You Want Footsteps

Author:Max Irons

“When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.”

Light Eye Faces Speak Heaven Hell Expression Glory Ordinary Shining Heavenly Your Face Light Up Gleam

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.”

Knows Way Mind Stills Body Speak Expression Personality Unique Silent Deeper Mind And Body

Author:Bernadette Roberts

“You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.”

People Character Reality Speak Heard Expression Speech Interviews

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.”

People Kind Long Important Country Would Be Speak Differences Honesty Example Expression Periods Direct France Finnish Finland

Author:Kaija Saariaho

“I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.”

Needs Art Actors Speak Voice Focus Movement Expression Art Is Etc Animation Facial Facial Expression Voice Over

Author:Atticus Shaffer

“Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.”

Ifs May Persons Sometimes Artist Left Speak Vision Expression Realms Unconscious Committees Artwork

Author:Philippa Perry

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

Ifs Years Made Said Hard Shows Speak Simple Morning Study Groups Expression Quiet Members Years Ago Albums Interviews Japan Embarrassing Debut

Author:Seungri

“I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So now we speak of the market system. That is a nice bland expression, which forgets those off-color references.”

Used Speak Forget Nice Color Expression Capitalism Used To Be Evoke Bland

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”

Speak Expression Europe European Countries

Author:Otto von Bismarck

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