Top 1200 Think Before You Speak Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionist, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. And then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Wherever I go, I have to speak English, which is my second language. So whenever you get a chance to speak in your own language? It feels good.

I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #? prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #? Heaven .

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.

I was in two successive European finals early in my career, so initially, you think that sort of thing is going to happen regularly. Then suddenly, it dries up, and before you know it, 13 years have passed before you get your next chance.

I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more sexist or racist or homophobic than their parents. Certainly less, in all those cases, less homophobic or racist or sexist, and then less gangster than our government. It's stuff that people normally don't speak on, subjects they don't speak on, and ideas they kind of keep to themselves.

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

I think we're great. I think we've still got it. And I think we've got something to give to people. And I think in times like this we can uplift people. We're doing it for ourselves, I'm not gonna lie. We wanted to announce our reunion the day after the riots, but it was important to play together before we announced it.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg.

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

[Dan Fried] served under President [Barack] Obama and under President George W. Bush before that and under President [Bill] Clinton before that and under President George H.W. Bush before that and under [Ronald] Reagan before that and under [Jim] Carter before that. He has been there a long time.

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn't mean anything.