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Speaking Quotes (page 21)

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. Henry Ward Beecher
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. Richard M. Nixon
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. C. L. R. James
George Jean Nathan quote: "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex...."
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. George Jean Nathan
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. Umberto Eco
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. Francis Bacon
Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. Jack Antonoff
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. Susan B. Anthony
Amos Bronson Alcott quote: "Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind,..."
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. John Adams
If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. Floyd Abrams
there’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, “Let me take care of you forever,” and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely . . . Elizabeth Gilbert
Salman Rushdie quote: "One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable,..."
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. Salman Rushdie
Nicholas Sparks quote: "That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap..."
That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower? Nicholas Sparks

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