My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. – The Bible James 1:19-20
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become. – David Lange
I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know. – Dasha Zhukova
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows. – Ed Koch
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. – Nicolas Malebranche
I’m too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak – it can be incredibly draining. – Erin O’Connor
As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA’s problems. – Chung Mong-joon
I’m not afraid to say ‘Jesus Christ,’ and I’m not afraid to speak of those who worship him. After all, Jesus preached about love. – David Seltzer
I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right. – Elijah Parish Lovejoy
You can’t speak for the people unless you’re able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people? – DMX
Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. – Phil Knight
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world? – Martin Jacques
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. – Michael Cunningham
I say ‘as it were’ or ‘so to speak’ too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I’m talking. – Guy Gavriel Kay
But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I’m not so happy. – Mordechai Vanunu
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. – Djimon Hounsou
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers. – Garth Risk Hallberg
It’s always been easy with Mark, he’s a rock fan and we speak the same language. He’s a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months. – Phil Collins
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’ – Dave Chappelle
I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. – Frank Abagnale
Back in I want to say 2011, Taylor Swift was on her ‘Speak Now’ tour. She was kind enough to bring me out as one of the openers on that tour. Between her and Miranda Lambert, who also helped me out that year, I got a pretty non-typical first tour as a fellow artist. – Charlie Worsham
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don’t you pick a transvestite? – Gary Bauer
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. – Diana Wynne Jones
When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I’ve been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they’re going through and feeling. – Marshawn Lynch
