Speak Quotes - Page 24

• The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Sleep, Average

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

  Richard Rohr

  Summer, Christian, Jesus

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In America, our jobs are being taken away from us. Companies, as we speak, are signing documents with Mexico and other places to move.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Moving, Taken

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

  Trevor Noah

  Care, Invasion, Language

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That competition grew through high school and you step outside more and it grew through college. Then you had regional style speak volumes through college. As you get older, and begin to travel and see more, that was the progression of style for me.

  Pusha T

  School, College, Competition

  Source: www.nicekicks.com

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• I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor would we want any to arise in the future. Therefore, everything needs to be pre-calculated, and we need to agree upon everything in advance.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Agree Upon, Thank God

  Source: www.rt.com

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• When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

  Sergio Leone

  Character, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  The End Of The Day, Our Words, Cadence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

  Kanye West

  Real, Rap, Kids

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Men, People

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

  Quentin Crisp

  Wave, Photograph, Notice Me

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a number of years the freedom of choice was "in principle" unlimited. One result was the weakening of inter-human bonds, particularly inherited bonds, and the counterfactual assumption that individuals must and can fend for themselves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Years, Numbers, Choices

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• I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?

  Eric McCormack

  Hero, World, Lost

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Blue, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Biblical, Judaism

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Broken, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Prayer, Eye

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.

  Nat Hentoff

  Virginia, Secret, Taverns

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• There's [John Mulaney Show] jokes that I have in stand up that I wouldn't try to put in, I would try to have someone just speak extemporaneously in the middle of a scene about an episode of "Law and Order" or something.

  John Mulaney

  Order, Law, Trying

  Source: uproxx.com

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• The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Media, Effort, Shy

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• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Boys

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.

  Nat Hentoff

  Atheist, Believe, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Caring, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love
  inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Silence, Lord

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.9, Fig

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