For if a good speaker never so eloquent does not see into the fact and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say and always a clever thing to say.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Speak ill of no man but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Every day we should hear at least one little song read one good poem see one exquisite picture and if possible speak a few sensible words.

However many holy words you read however many you speak what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I said to the almond tree 'Friend speak to me of God ' and the almond tree blossomed.

And poets in my view and I think the view of most people do speak God's language - it's better it's finer it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness a covenant between radically different persons male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen a covenant between radically different partners.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God as if men heard you.

Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I speak Spanish to God Italian to women French to men and German to my horse.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.

God who is eternally complete who directs the stars who is the master of fates who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history beyond our language beyond the links that have united us for so long what unites us today is the future.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants and should want to play a committed and active part.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak and not always with my advance approval and I expect that to continue in the future.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

It's funny though because when I first started going to races after we met I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone so I was really hesitant.

I believe in a funny way the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.