#peak

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#come #does #fear #jihad #millions

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ↗

— Mark Twain

#charm #desirable #forbidden #makes #unspeakably

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#brown #cause #even #hear #her

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#drama #empty #fiction #filled #jodi-picoult

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#doing #great #honestly #passionately #people

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#dissent #especially #ever #forceful #including

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#distance #excellence #judge #peak #people

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cold #i #like #never #order

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#language #money #nations #sense #speaks

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#dumb #generally #input #speaking