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“Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.”

Men Culture Speak Havens Pride

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.”

Evil Speak Tree Presses Journalism Thee Addresses Good And Evil Eden Idolatry

Author:William Cowper

“Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.”

Hands Speak Sin Punishment

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.”

Looks Eye Lasts Past Dies Speak Hours Glory Thirds Balls Paid Various British Screens Reputation Indian Queens Charming

Book:The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“Losers must have leave to speak.”

Speak Loss Loser

Book:The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III

Source: The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III

“And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.”

Men Speak Bible Stupidity Consistent Almighty

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.”

Long Speak Havens Travel Accents Speak English

Author:Robert Benchley

“Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.”

Knows Way Values Fall Speak Opposites Closest

Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

“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.”

Ifs Literature Speak Justice Blood Praying Creatures Mercy Innocent Shed Nobel Praying To God

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”

Made Two Different Light Three Speak Cases Theory Thousand Prove Discovery Connections Experiments Electric Exaggeration Electric Light

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.”

Trying Whole Speak Kindness

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?”

Want May Persons Speak Tomorrow Pauses

Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?”

Ifs Earth Speak Survival Committed

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.”

Men Reason Speak Fellows Fellow Man

Author:Richard Mitchell

“Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.”

Mind Eye Speak Pleasure Virtue Fellowship

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

Thinking Mind Self Whole Certain Speak Prayer Conversation Lips Praying To God

Author:Thomas Merton

“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

“Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.”

Matter Asks Speak Concern Curious Self Control

Author:Teresa of Avila

“What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.”

Reason Christian Speak Church Race Pure Profession Faithful Folds Selected Meek

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe

“The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.”

Thinking Speak Wife Weak Cease Trifling

Book:George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

Source: George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

“Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.”

Truth Speak Wealth Virtue Letters Dare Wit Dumb Accents Speak The Truth Mute Aloof Ragged Reproof

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

“A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.”

Persons Speak Sound New York Foreigners

Author:Jackie Mason

“Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.”

Men Mind Shows Running Speak Brain Mouths Labor Wit Every Man Vanity Flood Discourse Crete

Author:Herbert Spencer

“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.”

Trying Eye Speak Achieve Unions Great Things Needles Through The Eyes Camels Containers

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?”

Heart Speak Needed Messages

Book:Golden Jubilee Souvenir

Source: Golden Jubilee Souvenir

“For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.”

Certain Speak Colour Sensations Rays Disposition

Author:Isaac Newton

“When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.”

Thinking Speak Music Listening Composer Listeners Gifted

Author:Aaron Copland

“The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.”

Doe Feelings Certain Speak Blood Thousand Pure Red Relation Wine Glasses Concrete Rooted Hunters Caps

Author:Robert Motherwell

“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”

Way Giving Real Speak Nature Pleasure Lovers Summer Glory Praise Winter Real Love

Book:The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

“Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.”

Night Speak Nations Morning Millions Worry Planets Lucky Training Ideals Wake Up Caring Protection Saved Nurse Physicians

Author:John F. Kerry

“When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.”

Art Light Speak White Sun Materials Perfection Painter Shade Yellow Patents

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.”

Looks Spirit Speak Beauty Particular Taste Thousand Constitution Adapted

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.”

Spirit Speak Language

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.”

Thinking Littles Done Character Spirit Speak Given Hurt Angry Charity Ill Proof Considering

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.”

Persons Speak Strong Strength Conviction

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.”

May Artist Speak Alive Listening Confused Passivity Receptivity

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.”

Author:Pittacus of Mytilene

“God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.”

Knows Form Speak Shapes Capacity Metaphor Foolishness Simile Adaptability Adapting

Author:Christina, Queen of Sweden

“To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.”

Speak Language Very Good Good Friend Portraiture Very Good Friends

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.”

Ifs Facts Truth Speak

Author:David Seabury

“The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.”

Thinking Spirit Father Speak Prayer Christianity Teach Subjects Discussion

Book:Origen

Source: Origen

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Hands Time Speak Sun Paper Slave Ridiculous Circles Curse Silver Dictatorship Overrated Second Hand Knobs

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“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.”

Running Lying Speak Nations Sin Bible Including Ads Homosexuality

Author:Reggie White

“The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.”

Author:Roger Scruton

“I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.”

Done Able Suffering Speak My Own Blood Contrary

Author:Jim Dine

“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.”

Trying Mean Art Light Spirit Order Choices Universe Speak Consciousness Harmony Mathematics Impression Bother Appropriate Representatives Organize Imposing Artisans

Author:Robert Delaunay

“I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.”

Way Looks Speak Confidence

Book:Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

Source: Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

“No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.”

Self Order Jesus Speak Lord Position Listening Judgment Weakness Righteousness Reserves Again And Again Self Righteousness

Author:Pope Francis