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“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.”

People Knows Beautiful Certain Speak Sound Attractive Accents Harsh Beautiful Women Hebrew

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.”

Ifs Want Speak Like You Opposites Friendly Delightful De Niro

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.”

Doe Sometimes Speak Voice Silence Dog Metaphor Bark Pariahs

Book:The Hindus: An Alternative History

Source: The Hindus: An Alternative History

“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.”

“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.”

World Children Stills War Country Speak Nations Realizing United Awareness Raises Around The World Civil War Elsewhere Survived United Nations Sierra Recruitment Unicef Sierra Leone

Author:Ishmael Beah

“One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.”

People Trying Kind Different Culture Speak Language Voice Variety Shock Different Languages Culture Shock

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.”

People Believe Lying Speak Leader Speak The Truth

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

Men World Night Speak Heaven Cities Hell Fire Four Land Strange Elements Core Symbols Burning Temples Burned Venom Burning Bush Four Elements

Book:A Canticle For Leibowitz

Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz

“In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.”

Order Speak Truthful Speak The Truth Being Truthful Search For Truth

Book:When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God

Source: When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God

“In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart and reorder the things that are not ordered properly in Him. The importance of an appropriate detachment from the things of the world-or as they sometimes speak of it, the putting of our lives into the right-is stressed by all the spiritual writers.”

World Needs Heart Sometimes Spiritual Order Speak Rooms Our Lives Letting Go Importance Appropriate Filling Detachment Stressed

Book:The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

Source: The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.”

“Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.”

May Soul Speak Stronger Forgotten Forgiven

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.”

Heart May Self Speak Church Breathe Denial Self-denial

Author:Pope Francis

“On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.”

“If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart.......shuts down... And your words die.”

Ifs Heart Doe Able Dies Speak Knowing Down And Bother Laughed

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.”

Author:Patsy Rodenburg

“The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way is not cause or justification to discriminate.”

Way Heart Facts Speak Causes Justification

Author:Chuck Robb

“A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.”

Thinking Mind Heart Helping Hands Christian Speak Voice Christ Helping Hand Jesus Love Christian Love Christ Love

Author:Saint Augustine

“It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.”

Way Heart Soul Use Feelings Speak Language Chance Fire Sea Goes On Holy Singing Breaths Intention Streams Staying Cycles

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Littles Remember Speak Given Mankind Brother Office Regard Mortals Brotherhood Portions Elsewhere Brothers And Sisters Parking Elevators Parking Lot

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.”

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”

Want Persons Speak Language

Book:The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Source: The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

“If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.”

Ifs Speak Suits Butterfly Caterpillars Suits You

Author:Tama J. Kieves

“When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.”

People Men Trying May Seems Individual Speak Christ Lord Path Unique Understood Oneself Every Man Prophet Followers Righteous Biographies Exalted Humbling Personhood Humbling Experiences

Author:Criss Jami

“When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.”

People Stills Evil Individual Speak Wonder Gone Judging Being True Good People Remarks Too Good To Be True Nature Of Evil

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”

Knows Matter Winning Speak

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”

Way Littles Different Speak One Thing Poet Speech Different Ways Songwriters Little Time

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).”

World Able Speak Understanding Justice Compassion Students Pages Hearing Our World Without You True Justice

Book:True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

Source: True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

“I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.”

Mind Speak Edits Diplomatic Draining

Author:Erin O'Connor

“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”

Want May Speak Difficult Duty Morality And Love Neighbor Mediocrity Restraint

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.”

Knows Pain Speak Causes Trouble Duty Ill

Book:The Unclassed

Source: The Unclassed

“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.”

Doe Speak Enthusiasm

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“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

“Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?”

May Speak Church Practice Deeds Practice What You Preach

Author:St. Jerome

“No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.”

Care Speak Stones Listeners Arrows Unwilling Lodges No One Cares Recoil

Author:St. Jerome

“We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.”

Thinking Should Speak Wish Opinion Taste Endeavour

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall and wormwood; mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.”

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!”

People Long Speak Water Refuse Speaks Out Stagnant

Author:August Strindberg

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”

Men Children Hate Speak Language Teach Mouths Spells Despise Englishmen No Respect

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.”

Speak Wish Heresy Orthodoxy Martyrdom Heretic True And False

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.”

Thinking Way Mean Whole Body Christian Life Is Speak Christ Moral Clear Mass Let Me Fingers Cells Muscles Organisms Copying

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.”

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.”

Use Speak Liberty

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.”

Speak Periods Fruit Rewards Bores Unworthy Great Reward

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.”

Speak Virtue Ill Offence

Author:William Hazlitt

“We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.”

Doe Evil Speak Boys Wife Crime Regard Organized Lap Ideological Enabling Palin Gop Sopranos Organized Crime Speak No Evil Lap Dances

Author:Cintra Wilson

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”