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“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.”

“I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.”

Ifs Knows Speak Felt Hurt Emotion Player Emotional Losing Sorry Eras Sleeves

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

Truth Science Speak Fool Foolishness Prerogative Scientific Truth Sandman

Book:The Absolute Sandman

Source: The Absolute Sandman

“And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.”

Want Ends Speak Work The End Of The Day And At The End Of The Day

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".”

Today Earth Speak Heaven Christ Church Messages Satan Revelations Squares Inches

Author:Gary North

“After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all.”

Art Made Artist Speak Sides Too Much Blind

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.”

People Want Believe Persons Enough Might Names Speak Religious Demand Diversity Court Embrace Atheist Broads Believe In God Offended Accommodate Unbelief Pluralism Religious Person

Author:Cal Thomas

“Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.”

Mind Different Reason Artist Speak Prejudice Habitual Filters Cloudy

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.”

World May Doe Two Would Be Order Speak Language Remains Two Worlds Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.”

Ifs Stills Body Speak Fronts Perception Relation Interpretation Self Perception

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.”

Knows Men Speak Ability Limits Occasions Suitable Pandit

Author:Chanakya

“In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.”

Country Political Order Speak My Own Including Resistance Peaceful Appeals Communion Reign Speak The Truth Abduction

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.”

Used Speak Letters Used To Be Accents Accused Dropping

Author:Kate Nash

“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

“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”

Men Art Reality Names Speak Materials Communication Aim

Author:Asger Jorn

“I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

Ifs Want Looks Art Ideas Ends Speak Pieces Art Is Planning No Idea Imposing

Author:Nick Bantock

“The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.”

Mind Kind Doe Seems Eye Desire Speak Fire Lips Cheeks Modest Cupid Blushing

Author:James Harrington

“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.”

Humans Heart Self Spirit Song Speak Born Human Beings Alive Self Esteem Pride Self Love Happenings Strikes Esteem Uplifting Quests Entitled Human Spirit Greatest Love Popular Song

Author:Robert J. White

“Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.”

Choices Speak Models Programming

Author:Anders Hejlsberg

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend £45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.”

Looks House Speak Centre Perks

Author:Brian Robertson

“On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.”

Speak Hunger Campus

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.”

People Should Speak Eras Censorship Patriot Intimidated Patriot Act

Author:Gerald Nicosia

“We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.”

People Mind Speak Honest Messages Compromise Censorship

Author:Glenn Miller

“You should always speak your mind, and be bold, and be obnoxious, and do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you to stop it.”

Want Should Mind Speak Obnoxious Do Whatever You Want Speak Your Mind

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.”

Way Want Should States Speak Community United United States International Occupation Territory Aggression Palestinian Israeli International Community Israeli Occupation

Author:Khaled Mashal

“Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.”

Years Would Be Speak Voice My Own Technology Particular Years Ago Miracle Twenties Familiar Dragons Print Accents Unthinkable Apps Ipads

Author:Robert Genn

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.”

Ifs Bigs Running Speak Nations Highest Training Sticks Doctrine Patriotic Efficient Navy Adages Homely Speak Softly Monroe Doctrine

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.”

Speak Silence Silent Ill Excellent Dishes Spoil Covering Speak The Truth Sauce

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.”

Wells Speak Speech Judgment Silent Wit Sufficient Misfortunes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.”

Thinking Knows Men Speak Deals Common Imagine Teaching Ignorance He Man Speech Profound Imagine That Dogmatic Common Knowledge Teaching Others

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“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.”

“Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.”

Author:Javan

“The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”

Ifs Country Speak Resources Optimism Characteristics Excess Foolishness Dinosaurs Good Character

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

People Knows Humans Mean Use Feelings Science Speak Language Grows Wonder Knowledge Wonderful Building Clothes Mathematics Pool Human Experience Ecstatic

Author:Steve Jobs

“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.”

People Ifs Way Heart Speak Nature Tree Mountain Difficulty Woods Forests Contemplation Preaching Preservation Sermons Deaf Pine Trees

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.”

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.”

Ifs Writing Important Speak Audience College Communicate Wrestling Back To College

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.”

Ifs States Happens Speak Responsibility Israel Terrorism Favors Refugee Cleansing Zionist Zionism Ethnic Cleansing

Author:Golda Meir

“Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.”

Ifs Men Should Speak Holy Sentences Ghost Holy Ghost Few Words

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Inspiration Faith Speak Impossible Heard Catholic

Author:Saint Peter

“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”

“The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.”

Past Speak Wise Stupid Fool

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”

Truth Speak Peace Prayer Praying Instruments I Pray

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.”

Years Care America Speak Steady Fifteen Own Business Fifteen Years

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de”

Speak History Mouths

Author:Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”

Speak Deals Ready Second Amendment

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him”

Men Doe Soul Order Speak Half Military Civilization Distinction Petty

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte