"At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say."
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"Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth."
"God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you."
"Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?"
"I understand Spanish better than I speak it."
"I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel."
"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
"The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else."
"Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are things we use when we want to dance around something or don't want to say it. I don't want to be something that is avoided. And I am my body."
"Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish."
"Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music."
"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak."
"Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another."
"The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned."
"I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings."
"You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person."
"I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently."
"They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!"
"I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet."
"Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their."