#peak

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. ↗

— William Congreve

#baggage #believe #body #conscience #else

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic. ↗

— Chris Christie

#american people #anything #authentic #believe #else

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#airplane #automobile #biggest #computer #created

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! ↗

— Maria Montessori

#ever #language #learn #men #only

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#about #accept #british #british people #cameron

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#chocolates #communicating #communication #drinks #establish

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#backward #commissions #dared #down #fall

Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too. ↗

— Stan Slap

#branding #branding-culture #keynote-speaker #keynote-speech #leadership-quotes

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#feel #intently #listening #people #safer