Speech Quotes · Page 55

Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

— Flea

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

— Thomas Hobbes

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

— Benjamin Franklin

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

— Aeschylus

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

— Samuel Chadwick

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

— Elliott Abrams

That's the last time I work with somebody with a speech impediment!

— Daffy Duck

The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond…

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For…

— Herbert Read

The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore,…

— J. James Exon

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some…

— Conor Oberst

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about…

— Candice Bergen

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.…

— Laozi

You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a…

— John Climacus

I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all…

— Isaac D'Israeli

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are…

— Theodore Dreiser

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not…

— Bell Hooks

In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of…

— Bryan Fischer

“Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us.…

— Tim Muehlhoff

Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what…

— Thomas Sowell

“Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

— Penn Jillette

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

— Thomas Hobbes

For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

— Roy Peter Clark

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

— Confucius

“Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.”

— Brad Meltzer

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

— Madeleine Albright

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

— Jasper Fforde

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

— Donna Brazile

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

— Agnes Repplier

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

— Lord Hailsham

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

— Paula Poundstone

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

— Drake

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

— Ann Coulter