Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

I was the shyest kid. I’d never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

Not speaking up against pure evil is equal to co-operating with it

When something needs to be said, I’ll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.

Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up.

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer’s occupation. We write books because our children aren’t interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

So you don’t speak English, you have no ID, you can’t tell where you’re from… that’s suspicion, it’s lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

He has tongue of a writer.

Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Don’t say what you don’t want repeated.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

though ordinary you are,no one will notice,but speak the truth by confidence into each word of it.

Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Stick to the basics. Every. Single. Day. Do your job. Sweat the details. Put the team first. Be attentive. Ignore the noise. Speak for yourself.

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn’t speak French. I didn’t know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you’ll REGRET it!

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your...

…when your heart is broken, don’t go silent – speak to God in his own language…

Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you fromMidnight to midday and midnight.Look around:See how things all come alive-By death! Alive!Speaks true who speaks shadow.But now the place...

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

I don’t want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God’s heart.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it… Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words carry power, therefore before you speak out, speak in… and test your words!

I cut myself because you wouldn’t let me cry.I cried because you wouldn’t let me speak.I spoke because you wouldn’t let me shine.I shone because I thought you loved me…

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures – all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge

My ideal vacation isn’t about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don’t speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

You are not an afterthought. You were well thought out by God, and that is why you look, think and speak like no one else.

Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

I am becoming morbidly obese as we speak. So what’s the solution? To stop talking.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

When women break that taboo and they’re not afraid to drive that car by herself – that’s it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

You speak bad of me, I score goals.

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him… But I can’t go up and speak to him, because I don’t want to seem like a goob.

I speak some dwarvish.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…