Speech Quotes
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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
The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.
— Mark Dunn
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
We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
— Barack Obama
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 partof 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
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
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
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
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
Darkness promotes speech.
— Alberto Manguel
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
Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
— Alan Lightman
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
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
— Stewart Dalzell
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon