Top 1200 Speaking Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding the topic, because it involves the most private parts of the female´s body. But whenever I feel like this is too much for me to do, I read e-mails and messages I receive every day from people thanking me for speaking up for them, for giving them a voice. These messages let me know that I am not alone, and that what I do is worthwhile.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!

If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

I think my English is pretty good, but speaking without thinking about what you are saying, you know, it's just different.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

I don't want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don't.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...

Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.

I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

I'm not too bad at reading, but I've got a bit of a confidence problem with speaking, with going from Scouse to Spanish.

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

It was only after a visit to a learning centre, where they taught me public speaking, that my personality emerged.

I spoke at a number of conventions, like for pharmacists and cosmetologists, so I've done a lot of public speaking in my life.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.

It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.

As long as I'm speaking the truth, I'm going to be OK with what I'm saying. That's kind of how I've lived my whole life.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

I was born in Saint Boniface, which is a small city right next to Winnipeg, nominally French speaking.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

Frankly speaking, I feel anyone who starts acting, be it in theater, TV, or even advertisements, is looking at Bollywood.

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now." People are enslaved. I was just up in the country for a few days last week and it was great: no television, no telephone, no nothing. I walked through the woods, sat around, smoked. And it was lovely. I think the desire to be free has mutated, and we now live in an era when the slaves celebrate their slavery - this whole corporate concept of being part of a "team" at work.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

I had a small speaking part in 'Coco.' Katharine Hepburn said to me, 'You can act.' Wasn't that nice?

Instead of speaking of men versus women, we should speak about artists rising at a worldwide level.

My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.

I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.