Speaking Quotes

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

Henry James

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Shannon Hale

There are so many different ways for someone to say your name. I’m not sure I ever realized that before I met Jesse. Prior to him, it was just Rose calling out to me with love and affection or Gideon relaying his quiet approval or disapproval. Crisp, clear notes. When Jesse says my name, it’s a chord, a mash-up of several intense emotions all reflected in two syllables.

Paula Stokes

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

John Calvin

He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.

Sorin Suciu

Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.

Steven Magee

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Leanna Renee Hieber

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Raheel Farooq

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

Marcel Proust

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

Deyth Banger

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Turkish Proverbs

I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.She has hair as blond as yellow wheat in the sun,And when she speaks her mouth says things that aren’t words.She laughs, and her teeth are as clean as stones in a river.

Alberto Caeiro

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Brené Brown

Oda once said that when you speak excessively, it isn't necessarily communicating,” Jimmi says as he hunches over, resting his elbows on his knees. He yawns and doesn't cover his mouth.“What does that mean?”“It means that you can shut your mouth and still say what you need to say using the other gifts the gods gave us.

Celia McMahon

There are those who speak and those who dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

Paul Morabito

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

Tarjei Vesaas

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Brené Brown

The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Will Advise

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Influencing is just not about listening and speaking, it’s the game of interpretation.

Harrish Sairaman

What I speak and express is what, that does not even belong to me.

Alok Jagawat

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

Bryant McGill

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

Bryant McGill

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week?

Eugene H. Peterson

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

Pamela Cummins

To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.

Kathleen Depperschmidt

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Terry Tempest Williams

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

Michael Bassey Johnson

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

Sanober Khan

Day 72I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you’re touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me.

Gemma Seltzer

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

Germany Kent

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

Plato

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Umberto Eco

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

Craig Groeschel

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When I am in a situation where I feel uncomfortable about speaking but it is necessary for me to speak, or if I feel 'put on the spot' my voice sounds strained, really weird, and it feels as if I have no control over how I sound in these situations. Sometimes then my voice is barely audible and I am frequently asked to repeat myself. Attempts at speaking are often embarrassing, shaming experiences for me. I sound quite different when speaking with someone I am more relaxed with, but I don't like the way my voice sounds at the best of times; I was horrified when I heard a recording of myself. Because of this inhibition about speaking, I have never learned to project my voice or to use it effectively. I often feel that I could no more use my vocal cords to break a silence, to get somebody's attention or to initiate an interaction than I could run through fire or do something dangerous in my life.

Carl Sutton

My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

Amit Kalantri

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

Morgan Matson

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

Suzy Kassem

I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.

Kenneth Eade

Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.

Scarlett Thomas

Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?

Ramana Pemmaraju

I feel more, hence I speak less!

Ramana Pemmaraju

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117)

Jean-Yves Leloup

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Joseph Brodsky

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.

Patrick Rothfuss

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

Matthew De Abaitua

So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They that understand the meaning of language understand language and life better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue twister's tongue could twist, how many twists would the tongue twister's tongue twist while their tongue was a twisting.

Jazz Feylynn

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

Jazz Feylynn

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man’s face as he listens to himself speak.

Neal Stephenson

But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?

Tove Jansson

God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me. Change was happening. Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking. I just needed to be outside to hear the voice.

Cathleen Falsani

I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this was of my own making. I could speak at home, how come I couldn't outside it? I have never been able to find the right words to describe what it was like. Imagine that for one day you are unable to speak to anyone you meet outside your own family, particularly at school/college, or out shopping, etc., have no sign language, no gestures, no facial expression. Then imagine that for eight years, but no one really understands. It was like torture, and I was the only person that knew it was happening. My body and face were frozen most of the time. I became hyperconscious of myself when outside the home and it was a relief to get back as I was always exhausted. I attempted to hide it (an impossible task) because I felt so ashamed that I couldn't do what other people seemed to find so natural and easy - to speak. At times I felt suicidal.

Carl Sutton

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