#peak

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#because #hardest #meaning #music #speak

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#another #between #competing #confederation #countries

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#also #down #listen #sit #speak

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

— Buddha

#good #holy #however #many #read

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#candidate #convention #foundation #going #having

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#because #come #comedy #dark #find

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. ↗

— Felix Adler

#animating #comforting #past #speaks #stirring

Speak less but act more. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#less #more #speak

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#dictate #either #extent #increasing #languages

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#finds #good #himself #ill #man