Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“Whatever you’re given can wake you up or put you to sleep. That’s the challenge of now: What are you going to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
“There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the… — Keith Willhite Copy Share Image
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a… — Mario Copy Share Image
“We may not be, as we used to boast, the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Don't speak harshly to anyone; What you say will be said back to you. Hostile speech is painful, And you will meet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.” — Samuel R. Young Jr Copy Share Image
There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
The speech recognition is now good enough that I dictate emails on my phone rather than type them in. It's not perfect,… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
I give a speech at some colleges and corporations called 'Performing Your Life: An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor.' I get asked a… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which… — Stanley Forman Reed Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech.… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
