#peak

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. ↗

— Sophocles

#terrible #well #wrong

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. ↗

— Sophocles

#terrible #terrible thing #thing #well #wrong

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do. ↗

— Sophocles

#noble #speak

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#best #best interests #conduct #due #i

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#being #brutally #constantly #down #forward

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#asking #asking questions #authors #done #excel

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed. ↗

— Britney Spears

#changed #did #i #mom #more

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #everyone #generally #interesting #more

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england