It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.
Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.
I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia. . . and. . . with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.
I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
Be sure of your heart before you speak.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.
I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?
Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are things we use when we want to dance around something or don't want to say it. I don't want to be something that is avoided. And I am my body.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
I don't know if people come to the shows of the Raveonetteswith any certain expectations. I think that we have fans who know that we're not. . . hugely entertaining in any way. We don't put on a show, so to speak. We basically just play the music the way it's supposed to be heard - very loud, in a packed club, and in a good setting. People can stand still with their eyes closed, or they can dance. They can do whatever they want. We don't care.
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.