Speech Quotes · Page 44

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

— Mark Twain

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long…

— George Santayana

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

— Puneet Issar

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

— William Kean Seymour

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond…

— Thomas Merton

The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to…

— Frank Luntz

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very…

— Susan Estrich

Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off…

— Ian Frazier

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of…

— Bertrand Russell

“But we do not yet have a computer and a program for it that together can interpret speech correctly, without uncertainties, when…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in…

— Phil Jackson

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as…

— Raymond Moody

Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only…

— Hugo Black

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…

— Theodore Dalrymple

The Clinton Foundation does nothing but donate to charities." They can't find any evidence that what Schweizer has written about the Clintons…

— Rush Limbaugh

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of…

— George Orwell

And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think it's somewhere in my head, in my travel space, and it just comes out. It's a visual thing that happens…

— Grace Jones

“If you are tempted to reveal A tale to you someone has told About another, make it pass, Before you speak, three…

— Beth Day

“other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.”

— Neil Postman

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

— Thom Yorke

Ideas are inflammable. This doesn't mean, of course, that they shouldn't be expressed freely.

— Norah Vincent

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

— Franz Grillparzer

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

— George III

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because…

— Sabaa Tahir

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

— Byron White

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

— Jack Kevorkian

“This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.”

— Bentley Little

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

— Muriel Spark

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.

— Jim Harbaugh

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

— Mike O'Malley

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

— Benjamin E. Sasse