Speaking Quotes

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

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By chang...

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander,...

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my t...

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that d...

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand...

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ...

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

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

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "...

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and...

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without ...

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

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who ...

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe...

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

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

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek...

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

But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoug...

Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.Use dusky words and dusky images.Darken your speech.Spea...

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...

When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change th...