Speak Quotes - Page 39

• For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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• When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Song: Julia

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• Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Speak English, Voice

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• If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

  Louis Sachar

  Baby, Strong, Angel

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Holes”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• [She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Eye, Men, Mouths

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.477, Vintage

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• We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Views, Political

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

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• Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

  Yann Martel

  Brother, Atheist, Legs

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.31, Vintage Canada

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• As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Hate, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Creative, Needs

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• On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Mouths, Way, Dignity

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.231, Quirk Books

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• After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicidal, Thinking, Doors

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• . . . but there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

  Barry Lyga

  Order, Ideas, Supposed To Be

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

  Frank Beddor

  Thinking, Long, Silence

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• I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

  James Joyce

  Running, Confused, Wire

  James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners”, p.22, Booklassic

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• No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Childhood, Parent, Adults

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• Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Voice, Effort, Feelings

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• My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to my feet. Speak to me, I thought. And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus: Have you lost your mind?

  Cameron Dokey

  Feet, Mind, Lips

  Cameron Dokey (2013). “Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter's Child”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• All you have to do is speak up. Tell him straight up: "I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us security in our lives, to help raise these children, to set an example for this boy, who needs to see what real men do, and for this girl, who needs to know what a real man is so she can find one of her own someday. I need you to be the head of this family." Lay it out like this, and your requirements will trump his mother's every time.

  Steve Harvey

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

  Sara Gruen

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

  Jose Saramago

  Husband, Lying, Men

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• When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Names, Together

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1620, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Grace, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.117

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• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

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• Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

  Jasper Fforde

  Children, Mind, Adults

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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