Speech Quotes · Page 115

“Great losses are great lessons.”

— Amit Kalantri

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

— Vincent McNabb

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in…

— William Howard Taft

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and…

— Thomas Goodwin

I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the…

— Richard McCabe

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You…

— Flannery O'Connor

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm…

— Jason Wiles

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see…

— Louise Erdrich

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Bill Vaughan

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a…

— Herschel Walker

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

— Julian Jaynes

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political…

— Anonymous

When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early…

— Temple Grandin

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

— George Savile

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

— Rob Kampia

We made sure that Ian Gwyn Hughes from the media department gave a speech about the anthem. We translated it into English,…

— Rob Page

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained…

— Henry David Thoreau

Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk…

— Philip Roth

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

— Hannah More

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)…

— Garrison Keillor