I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.
Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.
Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to
As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.
There are a few things that tend to infuriate me. One is ignorance, because I have become accustomed to speaking to very intelligent people like Gore Vidal and Al Franken on a regular basis, since dating Bill Maher.
Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.
Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.
I was raised by a strong mother who always taught me to speak up, I never had difficulty leaving an uncomfortable situation or cutting eye contact; people used to call me cold. Girls need to learn that they're allowed to say no and to speak up. This is what I work on in Africa with the girls, but the issue is global and I'm glad that women are speaking up and saying that we won't put up with it anymore.
If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.
If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U. S. , we'd now be speaking Russian.
Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.
This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie. " Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become. " It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.