Top 1200 Speaking Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

If I do get offended, you'll probably know about it because I'm very honest and I don't hold back when it comes to speaking my mind.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Generally speaking, ego isn't a good thing. Humility is the most important quality in a human being.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

I'm not that guy in the suit, speaking the Queen's English. I don't need to be. I've done enough. I can go on 'Newsnight' as me.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Well, I don't think I'm a chef. I'm just someone that... I found a way of speaking. It was not a pen. It was not a brush. It was food.

The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay.

Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?

The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

It's become my brand in a way you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person.

The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

Generally speaking, I think one has to take reviews with a grain of salt, unless you know who the person is and what their qualifications are.

Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.

I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.

Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

I don't like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that's preaching to the audience or speaking down to us.