#speak

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#creation #criticism #motto #speak #think

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#fact #first #i #my own #observation

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#after #been #being #decided #economic

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come. ↗

— John Thorn

#better #building #come #culture #else

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#day #embarrassment #everyone #for the day #god

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american #become #cannot #chance #converse

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics. ↗

— Obie Trice

#around #beats #been #being #experienced

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#must #silent #speak #thereof #whereof

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#across #being #challenge #get #good