Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Batt

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

Mark Haddon

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

Margaret Bourke-White

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

Margaret Cho

Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

Ethel Kennedy

If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.

Jerry Greenfield

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

Frank R. Wolf

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Frank Serpico

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Howard Zinn

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Gene Robinson

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Fannie Lou Hamer

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Francis Collins

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

Jim Hightower

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

William Stafford

The world speaks everything to us. It is our only friend.

Billy Graham

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Charles Coody

The tournament has really grown. I think that speaks very well for the city.

Sean Connery

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Mark Twain

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

John Poindexter

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

Theodore Hesburgh

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

He's got a personality that, sometimes, he speaks his mind. And, sometimes, it doesn't come out right.

Daisaku Ikeda

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

It really speaks a lot about them and their willingness to compete.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Helen Prejean

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Mahatma Gandhi

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

(The hype) speaks for itself. It's a big game, and we're going to be prepared.

Terry Tempest Williams

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

Terry Tempest Williams

We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say No, we are not rolling over and No, this is not a corporate enterprise. This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.

Rachel Carson

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people...