Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence. – Alphonsus Liguori
I have learned to interface – what I think would be the contemporary term – with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. – Bono
It’s hard for me to speak of my own development. I’m the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along. – Ashton Eaton
There’s an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. – Joe Namath
To be among people one loves, that’s sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. – Jean de la Bruyere
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. – Charles Caleb Colton
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks. – Jean Kerr
There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, ‘This is wrong, and something should be done.’ – Alek Wek
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales. – Carine Roitfeld
I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong. – Adam Johnson
I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world’s top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn’t speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled ‘tennis,’ and I went with that. – John McEnroe
When I’m writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I’ve really done and to compare my intentions with the result. – Italo Calvino
When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you. – Jhumpa Lahiri
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. – Alfred Adler
I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren’t allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It’s very restricting, especially for girls; we’re not allowed to go anywhere. – Iman
When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing. – Jimmy Carter
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. – Janice Dickinson
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social. – Angela Ahrendts
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. – Christopher Walken
The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially. – Ann Veneman
I’ve always declined to speak about things I don’t think are anybody’s business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, ‘Well, you know, we have to ask those things.’ I say, ‘Well, maybe you do, but I don’t have to answer them.’ – Annie Potts
I’ve always been me. I’ve always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. – Bev Perdue
From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire. – Brooke Shields
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. – An Na
We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems. – Brendan Iribe
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That’s generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences. – John Oliver
Animals speak with pure affection. It’s important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love. – Bernadette Peters
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. – Jeannette Walls
When people feel they’re getting to speak into what’s being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate. – John Ortberg
