#speaking

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#asking #block #crime #day #every

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student. ↗

— Sting

#else #i #reached #someone #speaking

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#classed #continent #convey #every #face

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. ↗

— Tacitus

#angry #any #anyone #apt #cause

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#been #broadly #created #culture #entire

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles-cornick #humor #hunting-ground #public-speaking #humor

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and prostituted think of us, what the God of the universe thinks of us, not what those around us think of us. ↗

— Sarah Lance

#caring #church #compassion #excile #god

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#humility #opinions #richelle #richelle-goodrich #speaking

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way… ↗

— Paul Arden

#perfectionism #public-speaking #true-to-life #inspirational

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#kind-words #kindness #love #peace #shores