A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
Laozi

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
Eric Berne

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
Black Elk

And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.
Peter Krause

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.
Gerald Scarfe

Any time the president talks, you listen.
Ben Nelson

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.
Jessica Hahn

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
Delta Burke

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
Frank Dane

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
Anne Parillaud

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
Richard Neal

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.
Stjepan Mesic

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
Sean Paul

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Charles Dudley Warner