Speech Quotes · Page 53

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

— Gregory Benford

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

— Anthea Butler

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

— George Henry Lewes

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

— Amit Kalantri

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone…

— Sharon Creech

“Silence is more profitable unto thee than abundance of speech.”

— Ptahhotep

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

— Samuel Rogers

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In…

— Elena Ferrante

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and…

— Gareth Gates

He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches…

— John H. Vincent

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for…

— Jacques Barzun

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit…

— Harrison Ford

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of…

— Anonymous

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and…

— Jimmy Wales

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great…

— Woodrow Wilson

That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime…

— Nancy Pelosi

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will…

— Scott Brown

To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer…

— L. Tom Perry

We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for…

— Anonymous

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Speech itself, inevitable and unrelenting is the wind. It can dance like a zephyr. It can roar or shriek or wail. But…

— Brooke Gladstone

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

— Anonymous

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

The best time to end your speech is when you feel the listening is lessening.

— Vikrant Parsai

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

— Winston Churchill

I have grown up in a country where we are told that there is freedom of speech.

— Jwala Gutta

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

— William Congreve

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

— Herbert Hoover

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

— Larry the Cable Guy

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

— Anonymous

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

— Geert Wilders

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

— Yanni

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

— Anonymous

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

— Nouman Ali Khan