There is nothing to be known about anything except an initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things. Everything that can serve as a term of relation can be dissolved into another set of relations, and so on for ever. There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.
I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.
The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.
Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.
when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.
I cannot speak your england.
Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.