A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait. . . and peace will appear.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.
You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you. ' Now, how awesome is that?
I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.
They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!
I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
I'm beating down the Internet as we speak.
A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.
You speak As one who fed on poetry.
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.
I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.