It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.
I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing I am shameful of or anything else in my novels. They are my children and I'm happy to speak about my children.
Let your face speak what's in your heart.
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.