When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today. — Kweisi Mfume Copy Share Image
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight. — Homer Copy Share Image
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing… — John Searle Copy Share Image
It is deeply concerning to learn that Linda Thomas-Greenfield repeatedly praised autocratic China's aggressive and troubling expansion into Africa during a 2019… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always… — John Barth Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“When we were leaving London, Dad spent about an hour trying to push his wardrobe through the bedroom door. He turned it… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image