Speaking Quotes - page 2

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. View quote
Philip Sidney
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. View quote
Anatole France
In all matters but particularly in architecture ...that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. ...One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions. View quote
Vitruvius
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. View quote
Bill Maher
Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. View quote
Joan of Arc
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into 3 classes those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death. View quote
Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the rise of the supermanager is largely an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon. View quote
Thomas Piketty
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? View quote
Naomi Klein
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. (Charles Webster Leadbeater)
I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart. View quote
Aimee Garcia
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. View quote
Albert Ellis
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. View quote
Alva Myrdal
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. View quote
Garry Shandling
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. View quote
Conrad Veidt
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. View quote
Eddie Bernice Johnson
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. View quote
Leo Ornstein
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. View quote
Marla Maples
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue. (Neil Tennant)
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. View quote
Neville Marriner
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. View quote
Richard O'Brien
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. View quote
Todd Solondz
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. View quote
Buckminster Fuller