#speak

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#causing #end #himself #his #his way

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#ease #knows #live #must #sees

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. ↗

— Enya

#areas #because #gaelic #ireland #long

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#class #college #drop #front #i

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#america #attack #attacked #britain #civilized

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#banal #banality #before #carefully #danger

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. ↗

— Marie de France

#five #glibly #his #hundred #letter