Speech Quotes · Page 29

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

— William Randolph Hearst

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

— Allison Glock

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”

— Amit Kalantri

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.

— Mike Leach

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

— Anonymous

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

— St. Jerome

Whenever I talk with someone who stutters...I yell 'REMIX!' so they feel cool and shit.

— Anonymous

I did my first speech when I was 17, well, my first formal speech. So I've had time to deal with it,…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

“Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged…

— Mark Logue

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

— Leonard Mlodinow

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's…

— Beatrix Campbell

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of…

— Bernie Sanders

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software…

— Laura Sydell

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as…

— Al Gore

At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in…

— Conan O'Brien

It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts…

— Jonathan Rauch

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my…

— Henry Bromell

I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say…

— Corey Taylor

“...revealing intimate truths that serve as a forceful reminder to folks that when they feel broken and afraid and tired, they are…

— David Harbour

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it,…

— John Henry Newman

Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back…

— Rumi

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would…

— Alan Dershowitz

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do…

— H. L. Mencken

I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

— Dana Gould

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

— William Robert Woodman

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

— William Shakespeare

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

— Peter Salovey

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

— Tobe Hooper

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

— Ambrose Bierce

“There are occasions when the silence speaks, and speech is silent”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

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

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

— David Mitchell

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Jonathan Tropper

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