I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
Modeling is a lonely business. . . You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image. . . the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
In Speaking Out I do my best to answer those questions I was asked and more, and I provide strategies for how to speak out and keep on speaking out without burning out.
My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there. "
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like. ' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.
In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.
We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special expertise. After all, all people - not just philosophers - have attitudes and points of view on various philosophical questions, and they rather resent being told that there are professionals who can think about these things better.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.