#peaks

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

— Confucius

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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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Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ↗

— Brendan Francis

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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. ↗

— Al Franken

#christian #christian right #culture #extreme #extreme poverty

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. ↗

— David Frum

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The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#itself #love #love is #never #silent

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate