#peaks

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. ↗

— Al Franken

#christian #christian right #culture #extreme #extreme poverty

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. ↗

— David Frum

#biggest #event #everybody #great #great power

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#itself #love #love is #never #silent

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #church #i #i do #me

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #ceremony #church #during #favor

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#i #i think #immediately #language #notice

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#call #colorado #could #david #david lynch

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#just #like #place #sea #shakespeare

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#language #latitudes #same #speaks #under