Top 1200 Think Before You Speak Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The thing is, if people get it right away, I just don't think you're making art. I think you're making something they're comfortable with. You have to challenge people. You know, it has to be new. It has to be something they haven't seen before. Just bring them something they haven't seen before. They aren't going to love it right away because they haven't seen it before. So they have to take a minute, you know?

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

I think it is important to speak out.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

We speak Turkish at home, and I can speak the language. I have a lot of family there - I try to fly to Turkey once a year when I have holidays.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don't follow the nuances of government like I do, because they're too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

In order for me to get right, I had to go back to Memphis, I had to close myself in, get in the studio, lock in, and just think about everything before all the ice, before the money, before everything, and just vent.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.

I don't believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Manute Bol was one of the guys who taught me to be bold. To be fierce. To speak intelligently, and speak like you belong.

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we can not only change a life or save a life, but we can also make it possible for other people to speak up. If we harness the collective power of people's voices around America to address the opioid epidemic, I have no doubt that we can overcome it.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

I've been really pleasantly surprised by 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'd never really heard of that gang before, that comic series before. And I think when you go into those, watching those sort of films, you watch them with no expectation as well, so you're always kind of pleasantly surprised, I think.

People often ask me why I continue to speak out if it's hurting my family. But that's exactly why I speak out. The people Erdogan is targeting are my family, my friends, my neighbors, my classmates. I need to speak out, or my country will suffer in silence.

I think sometimes, especially 'The Bachelor,' feels like you're being judged. You play it safe, so to speak. I've never played it safe and I think that made for a really good season.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our country is wrong.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

I think my stats speak for themselves.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.