Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.” — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“By not hurting anyone through one's mind, speech and action, all the vows (vrat) are encompassed in this!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You must be Pain in the Nick.” – Dev “Huh?” – Nick “Don’t wet your pets. Just a figure of speech. Your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
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