Speech Quotes · Page 101

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

— Gabriela Mistral

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

I thought he [Tim Kaine] was terrible. I thought his speech was terrible.

— Donald Trump

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the…

— Gene Weingarten

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

— Nathaniel Altman

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives…

— William J. Clinton

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being…

— Anne Waldman

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but…

— Winston Churchill

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

— Publilius Syrus

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on…

— Conan O'Brien

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made…

— Larry Craig

I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived…

— Josh Gad

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

— Albert Camus

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group -…

— Jeffrey Kluger

No human speech comes without error, if it does come without error, then it is God speaking.

— Terry Mark

“You don't have to explain something you haven't said.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the…

— Joe Randazzo

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.…

— Mark Twain

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

— Jennifer Carpenter

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people…

— Marlee Matlin

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes…

— Dom DeLuise