#speak

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#answer #ask #before #going #helpful

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ↗

— Herman Melville

#awful #beneath #gently #hidden #knows

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #assume #before #fool #man

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#bad #because #detest #go #i

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗

— David Miliband

#hebrew #history #i #i do #memory

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#belonging #entirely #feeling #hostage #me

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#culture #definitely #everyone #fear #first

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#let us #shame #speak #think #us

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us. ↗

— Maria Monk

#each #hearing #kept #nuns #old

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#grow #i #little #more #much