Speech Quotes · Page 31

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

— Mike Bass

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

— Alan Dershowitz

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

— Heywood Broun

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

— Plutarch

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

— John Heider

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

— Moliere

“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes…

— Sylvia Boorstein

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce…

— Conan O'Brien

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech,…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put…

— P. G. Wodehouse

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight…

— Frank Norris

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise…

— Chanakya

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and…

— Jim Rohn

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles…

— J. B. Priestley

This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum,…

— William A. Rusher

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us…

— John Stossel

Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by…

— Deepak Chopra

Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of…

— Jimmy Fallon

“Except for pure Soul (Shuddhatma), the mind, speech, body, intellect is all subject to vyavasthit (energy that runs the world). It is…

— Dada Bhagwan

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech…

— Francis Bacon

We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at…

— Kurt Huber

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

— Jordan Peterson

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

— Moby

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

— Kenneth Rexroth

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an…

— Ayn Rand

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

— Bell Hooks

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

— Confucius

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

— Van Jones

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

— Julian Jaynes

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

— Francis Bacon

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

— Lord Mansfield

It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional…

— Anonymous

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

— Boyle Roche

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

— Cliff Stearns