Speech Quotes · Page 56

“It is a sense of possessiveness and inner attachment (parigraha) for speech to ask, "How did I speak?”

— Dada Bhagwan

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

— Camille Paglia

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

— Bela Kun

“Does he not realize that facial expressions are supposed to accompany speech?”

— Colleen Hoover

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

— Bill Vaughan

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

— Richard M. Nixon

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

— John Morrison

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

— Patrick Chappatte

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not…

— Henry Hyde

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for…

— Harry Browne

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech…

— George Will

In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each…

— Khalil Gibran

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which…

— Anonymous

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together.…

— Pat Sajak

Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for…

— Conan O'Brien

We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have…

— William Randolph Hearst

“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent…

— James William Steven Parker

So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,…

— Edna Ferber

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech…

— Bella Heathcote

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that…

— Amin Maalouf

And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards…

— Julian Barnes

Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trump's speeches for the last two or three weeks…

— Rudy Giuliani

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If Five’s speech – clearly for our benefit – has revealed anything, it’s that he’s pretty much lost his mind.”

— Pittacus Lore

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

— Marshall McLuhan

“He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.”

— Richard Darman

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

— Isaac of Nineveh

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

— George Will

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

— Cal Thomas

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

— Joseph Conrad

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

— Anonymous

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

— Lilian Jackson Braun

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

— Plutarch