When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of...

This record makes me feel so happy!’ Wonderful! Words are delightful little gifts we exchange like the Easter eggs we paint and hide for others to find and enjoy. I’d forgotten that, but you reminded...

Speak kindly to and of yourself.

It’s better to say something too little, than nothing too much.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man’s dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their...

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

We both tried to speak at the same time, and ended up remaining silent the whole night. That’s when I realized we were in love.

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn’t mean you do it.

A lake is not an ocean. But my love for you is. And it’s drying up as we speak—or, rather, as we don’t speak.

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. “You’re going to vacuum up that squirrel!”There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you...

There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn’t.

Wit and puns aren’t just decor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

A crime scene is a silent witness that speaks louder and clearer than any human. Just ask Helen Keller.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn’t, simply from a sense that one had...

There’s nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely...

monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big...

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

It is too sad . I must speak to him- The do you really ?- Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak?- Earlier , you talked...

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not ‘How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?’ but ‘How...

Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won’t speak for myself anymore.

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.

Turn the fan off when I’m talking. It not only makes my words colder, but it distorts and dilutes what I’m saying.

Day 72I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing...

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

Don’t talk sign language and masturbate at the same time. Not unless you’re translating a Presidential State of the Union address.

Aber sie hat immer mit mir geredet, als wäre ich jemand. Und das, verstehen Sie, das macht einen ganz neuen Menschen aus einem.

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.