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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite. — Adam Nicolson

As long as you have a Cell Phone you're never alone — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. — Bela Lugosi

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time. — Will Durant

The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences. — Mark Dunn

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation. — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. — Lao-Tzu

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us. — Barack Obama

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. — John Major

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver. — Aristotle.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. — Mark Twain

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought. — Tim Fargo

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy. — Kevin McCarthy

Avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater measure of godlessness. 2 Timothy 2:16 — Beth Moore

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson

Each part
of speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ... — Denise Levertov

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. — Michael Rivero

a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, — Susan Sontag

Siberia taught Dostoyevsky much that would be fictionalized in Demons, including criminal speech, the criminal mind and the ways of officialdom. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wanna know the secret to nailing a great speech? It's simple--don't trust words. — Stephen David Hurley

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Simonides

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. — Horace

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
We got to fight the powers that be! — Chuck D

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. — Tiffany Madison

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. — Homer

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde

Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than. — William McDavid

So we surrender to stupidity, do we? Freedom of speech is sacrificed at the altar of manufactured rage. — David Mitchell

You have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation! — Gail Carriger

The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech — Stephen Keague

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well. — Jonathan Krohn

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. — Catherine Of Siena

You wouldn't hurt a virgin, would you? Where do you think they get virgin olive oil, huh? Don't you think we're pathetic enough as it is? — Italy

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one. — Winston Churchill

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. — Curt Schilling

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech. — Gene Weingarten

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. — Oscar Wilde

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith

Uh ... why does your partner keep saying 'ing.' Mr Pin?"
...
"Speech impediment.' said Pin. — Terry Pratchett

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. — Sathya Sai Baba

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. — Andre Norton

Darkness promotes speech. — Alberto Manguel

I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon ... [p. 48] — Siri Hustvedt

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment. — Herschel Walker

Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening. — Ellen F. Davis

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood

Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well. — Sue Monk Kidd

An aspersion upon my parts of speech! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain. — Klaus Kinski

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. — Virginia Woolf

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.' — Charles Lyell

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. — Maria Montessori

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings. — Jennifer Stone

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time. — Alan Lightman

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech. — Jim Jordan

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach. — Drake

Unless I speak, you won't see me. — Marty Rubin

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. — Michael Anti

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'
The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood

In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn't have won. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. — Ben Carson

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. — Stewart Dalzell

Does he not realize that facial expressions are supposed to accompany speech? — Colleen Hoover

It's far more important why is being said, than what. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. — Sextus Empiricus

Every word comes from the heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober. — Bonar Law

Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge — T.F. Hodge

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family. — William J. Clinton

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. — George Henry Lewes

In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise. — Temple Grandin

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth. — Plutarch

It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face! — Michelle Obama

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. — John McWhorter

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. — Mahavira

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. — Yoshimi Ishikawa

Someone has said, Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put. — Billy Graham

I like something with 'vice' in it. — Ted Turner

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. — A.J.P. Taylor

Speech is the mirror of the mind. — Seneca The Younger

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. — Sara Blakely

Music ... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers. — Walter Lippmann

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. — Martin Luther King Jr.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Prayer needs no speech. It is itself independent of any sensuous effort. I — Mahatma Gandhi

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. — Hesiod

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon