Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.
Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.
I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it. . . If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
A man cannot speak but he judges himself
The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.