Speech Quotes · Page 59

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech”

— Joseph Brodsky

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

— Thomas Carlyle

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

— Anonymous

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

— Alain Robert

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.

— Tobias Lutke

“If You [the Self] remain as the Knower-Seer of all the kriya (activities of the mind-speech-body), then all the activities are in…

— Dada Bhagwan

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop…

— Craig Ferguson

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It…

— Noam Chomsky

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,…

— Gorgias

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up,…

— Michael Savage

We judge people by their speech not by heart and actions¦¦The speech might be harsh but actions are soft¦¦contrary facts are hard…

— Santanu Mishra

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied…

— James Earl Jones

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and…

— Rick Yancey

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may…

— Louis D. Brandeis

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All…

— Matthew Arnold

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a…

— William Borah

The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable…

— Friedrich St. Florian

With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered…

— Cassandra Clare

My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in…

— Seneca the Younger

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear… It is not training but love which impels them to…

— Helen Keller

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

— Jared Harris

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

— Anonymous

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

— Dario Fo

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

— David Blunkett

I have a speech impediment. I was in speech for six or seven years. It was really bad when I was a…

— Darren Elkins

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

— David Mitchell

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

— Earl Weaver

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

— Laura Loomer

With honest discussion, free speech, let people's voices be heard.

— Ron Johnson

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

— Mary Baker Eddy

“A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject”

— Jonathan Tropper