#peak

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#honourable #man #michael #slowly #speak

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. ↗

— Silvia Colloca

#because #embarrassing #get #guy #him

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#did #eyes #front #having #know

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ↗

— Confucius

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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. ↗

— William Congreve

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The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work. ↗

— Jim Talent

#down #effectively #gone #many #only

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

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