When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Votes: 2
Thomas JeffersonIf you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? Votes: 2
Jim HightowerWhen I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak. Votes: 2
Jose Antonio VargasI have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed. Votes: 1
Saint Francis de SalesWhen you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first. Votes: 0
Michel HazanaviciusMy imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. Votes: 0
Patricia HighsmithTender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak. Votes: 0
William C. BryantA Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate. Votes: 0
Rick WarrenIt's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language. Votes: 0
Marcus SamuelssonIt is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future. Votes: 0
Benjamin NetanyahuI hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. Votes: 0
Paul TillichSometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen. Votes: 0
Martha BoltonWords deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterLanguage is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. Votes: 0
David BezmozgisWhen we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. Votes: 0
David JeremiahCritics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaWhen I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God ... Votes: 0
Rachel SimonI think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg. Votes: 0
Christian FinneganI made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. Votes: 0
Shaquille O'NealWhen we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to. Votes: 0
Edith HamiltonI think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Votes: 0
Adam GopnikTo be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreWe will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaWhen we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst Votes: 0
Jeremy HammondWhen you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'. Votes: 0
Amy Dickinsonwhen you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own. Votes: 0
Carol GraceNo matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger. Votes: 0
Saint John ChrysostomI don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned. Votes: 0
Quentin CrispSpeak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ! Votes: 0
Paul ClaudelYou never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellWhen you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleI first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford. Votes: 0
Aaron SwartzI don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned Votes: 0
Quentin CrispYou cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. Votes: 0
Jean-Marie Le PenWhen a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you Votes: 0
Fernando LamasWhen I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone. Votes: 0
Trevor DonovanWhen I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. Votes: 0
Anthony de MelloWhen you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinSpeak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Votes: 0
Ambrose Bierce[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak. Votes: 0
David FrumWhen people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. Votes: 0
Bruno TonioliWhen we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. Votes: 0
MoliereWhen we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Votes: 0
Karl BarthEven when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart. Votes: 0
Pat NixonIt's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing. Votes: 0
Samantha BeeListen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry. Votes: 0
Mindy KalingWhen we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis! Votes: 0
Lily TomlinFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say. Votes: 0
Leonard CohenNever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two. Votes: 0
Indira GandhiI was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free. Votes: 0
Richard RoundtreeI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid. Votes: 0
Cato the Youngeroften when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest. Votes: 0
Lucy FreemanWhen you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it. Votes: 0
Alessandro NivolaI loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel. Votes: 0
Pina BauschIt is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonWhen we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all. Votes: 0
Marilynne RobinsonI am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings. Votes: 0
DaesungThere are moments in relationship when you didn't speak, you didn't have to; but you talked a lot. Votes: 0
Aman JassalPainting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. Votes: 0
Barnett NewmanAbout humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. Votes: 0
Maharishi Mahesh YogiStriving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Votes: 0
Samuel DanielI don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. Votes: 0
Shane CarruthNone love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherWhen people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! Votes: 0
August StrindbergIt is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. Votes: 0
PlutarchWhen we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves. Votes: 0
Herta MullerI can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music. Votes: 0
CommonWhen words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickWe must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. Votes: 0
Helene CixousDon't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak. Votes: 0
Adam CappaKnow when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickYou can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed. Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinI speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. Votes: 0
Natalie PortmanIt bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way. Votes: 0
Kelvin FletcherIn many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. Votes: 0
Morley SaferIf I remembered when people said mean things about me, I would never speak to the media again. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonI think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless". Votes: 0
Veronica RothI woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death. Votes: 0
Barry WhiteWhen we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. Votes: 0
Nhat HanhWhen a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well. Votes: 0
EuripidesWe speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on. Votes: 0
Jacqueline CareyIt's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours. Votes: 0
Natalie MacMasterI should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak. Votes: 0
RumiWhen nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it. Votes: 0
Marlon RiggsWhen you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinWhen life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranGod sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisI will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people. Votes: 0
Gene RobinsonI do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for. Votes: 0
Kelly BishopWhen I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnWhy does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy. Votes: 0
Stevie SmithWhen we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself. Votes: 0
Catherine IngramWhen I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts. Votes: 0
Kieron GillenIf it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts. Votes: 0
Gylve NagellThe gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. Votes: 0
Walter RaleighIf you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up. Votes: 0
Banana YoshimotoWhen I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth. Votes: 0
Mike DirntChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerWhen I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. Votes: 0
Matt BomerWhen I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? Votes: 0
Victor HugoWhen a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. Votes: 0
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