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“The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.”

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Author:Victoria Moran

“You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.”

Thinking Knows Way Speak Education Teach Our Words

Author:DMX

“Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.”

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Author:Lou Diamond Phillips

“I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.”

People Thinking Light Dies Speak Materials Assuming Hairspray

Author:Brittany Snow

“I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Trying Shows Speak Love Is Harder Celebrate These Days Much Love

Author:Emeli Sande

“The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.”

Thinking Should Christian Culture Speak Religious Poverty Issues Extremes Hypocrisy Global Warming Voters Christian Right Extreme Poverty

Author:Al Franken

“In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.”

People Thinking Art Law Speak Forget Class Middle Brother Dad Journalist Middle Class Accents Working Class Art History Trilogies

Author:Denise Mina

“I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.”

Thinking Stories Speak Reader Good Story Hallmark

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.”

Ifs Thinking Character Dream Speak Voice Imagine Particular Skins Chosen

Author:André Brink

“If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”

Thinking Way Heart Important School Turns Speak Language Class Cutting Music Is Crosses Vices Observation Granted Borders Vice Versa

Author:Dan Rather

“One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.”

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Author:Jay Rockefeller

“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.”

People Thinking Enough Young Mother Speak Sex Love Making Away From Love

Author:Madame de La Fayette

“I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.”

Thinking School Speak Seeing Students Directors Female Gender

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Writing Firsts Country Reason Government Law Speak Wish Causes Party Pay Liberty Degrees Worship Doctrine Command Candidates Amendments Compelling First Amendment

Author:Hugo Black

“The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.”

People Thinking Writing Firsts Country Reason Government Speak Wish Liberty Worship Command Amendments First Amendment

Author:Hugo Black

“Although actions speak louder than words, I believe it is our intentions that reveal our soul. Refrain from judging others based solely on their words and actions, and seek to know their deepest intentions so that you can know who they truly aspire to be, and support them in becoming the best version of themselves.”

“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Thinking Men Firsts Heart Mean Two Turns Speak Force Voice Subjects Danger He Man Solitude Equal Approach Painful Pleasant Reasonable Yield Avoiding

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.”

Thinking Men Speak He Man Torture Obliged Speak The Truth

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“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

“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

“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

“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...

“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

“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

“We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.”

Thinking Real Whole Dream Spiritual Culture Speak Language Mankind Development Civilization Roots Mirrors Spiritual Development Tracing

Author:Ernest Klein

“There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.”

Thinking Trying Speak Fun Stuff Lines Having Fun Propriety

Author:Paul Beatty

“It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.”

People Thinking World Important Able Speak Language Grew Grew Up Absolutes Important Things Privilege

Author:Lucy Liu

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.”

Thinking Use Speak Social Rooms Dog Medicine Block Apples Cheese Scenarios Sauce Analogies

Author:Sloane Crosley

“I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.”

Thinking Different Character Speak Voice Different Voices

Author:Guy Ritchie

“My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.”

People Thinking Moving Dies Speak Cry

Author:Lil B

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.”

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Author:Tom DeLonge

“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.”

Thinking Men Persons Use Speak Language Causes Teach Produce Masters Depends Authority Increase Noble Followers Loyal Inclination

Author:Thomas Szasz

“I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.”

Thinking Speak Foreigners Speak English

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.”

Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Matter Earth Together Speak Water Inspired Stuck Strings Composer Composition Paragraph Flour Tchaikovsky

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

People Thinking May Lying Speak Gains Speak The Truth

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.”

Thinking Humans Speak Kindness Grace Essence Lays Humanism Saving Emphasis Human Kindness Saving Grace

Author:Michael Dirda

“There are Christians who think and speak altogether too much about the power of Satan. They think of their adversary, they pray about him, they talk about him, and he looms up greater and greater in their imagination. It is true that Satan is a powerful being; but, thank God, we have a mighty Saviour, who cast out the evil one from heaven. Satan is pleased when we magnify his power. Why not talk of Jesus? Why not magnify His power and His love?”

Thinking Christian Evil Jesus Speak Heaven Imagination Powerful Greater Too Much Praying Casts Satan Why Not Thank God His Love Adversaries Saviour

Book:The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

“Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.”

Source: The Robin Sharma Pack

“Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.”

Source: Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.”

Thinking Knows Speak Risk Speaks Out

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way”

People Thinking Way Speak Water Sweet Flower Rivers Roots Milky Way Daffodil Flowing River

Book:The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962