(1519 quotes found)
“Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.”
Chinua Achebe
“I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And from my solitude I think, work, and live - and I believe that I write and speak with almost infinite composure and resignation. In my solitude I consta”
Camilo Jose Cela
“Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.”
Desmond Morris
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept”
Carl Becker
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Who knows most speaks least”
Spanish Proverb
“The weight of this sad time we must obey;Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
William Shakespeare
“Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.”
William Bennett
“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away”
