Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“I feel I must learn to speak the Baa
of the simple-minded, while my mind
dives into the multi-colored
crowded voices,
cries for help, My breasts are off me.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)