Speech Quotes · Page 52

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

— J. K. Rowling

Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.

— Saul Gorn

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

— Stephen Colbert

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

— Gautama Buddha

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

— Amal Clooney

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

— Richard Branson

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. [ Blog post, March 12, 2012 ]”

— Jim C. Hines

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

— Judy Gold

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all…

— Christopher Dodd

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every…

— Kate Forsyth

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's…

— Laura Sydell

When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not…

— Anonymous

Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days.” “That does…

— Michael J. Sullivan

I join other players in calling for all teams to take a stand. We should not be subject to hate speech or…

— Donovan Mitchell

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to…

— Shelley Moore Capito

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences…

— Sam Harris

Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that…

— Keith Olbermann

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk…

— John F. Kennedy

Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily…

— Maria Conchita Alonso

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary…

— Kevin Sessums

Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace…

— Nhat Hanh

Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher…

— Catherine Camus

“It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet…

— Robin McKinley

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

— Anonymous

My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

— Laura Harrier

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

— John Hagee

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am…

— Pope Francis

I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

— Simon Tam

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

— Richard Darman

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

I thought he [Tim Kaine] was terrible. I thought his speech was terrible.

— Donald Trump

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches

— Patricia Highsmith

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

— Ted Lieu

I could make a speech about death. But words are just not enough. Therefore, there's not much I can say.

— Tahj Wilson

“Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

— Pat Paulsen

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

— Winston Churchill

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

— Julie Delpy