Speech Quotes · Page 33

“Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.”

— Julius Veal

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

— Joe Biden

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

— Kumail Nanjiani

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

— Betty Friedan

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

— Ai Weiwei

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”

— Abbie Hoffman

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to…

— John Stuart Mill

Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening…

— Henry Giroux

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the…

— Peter Watts

Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between…

— James Joyce

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and…

— Edmund Burke

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is…

— Kamal Ahmed

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and…

— Salman Rushdie

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to…

— Raul Castro

When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and…

— Lucretius

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy…

— Harold Evans

That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would’ve had to give you my tough-girl…

— Julie James

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying…

— Camille Paglia

The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation…

— Mihai Nadin

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about…

— Anonymous

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible…

— Anthony M. Kennedy

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

— Newton Lee

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

— Howard Barker

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

— Tony Benn

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

— George Savile

One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.

— Lucy Worsley

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

— William Safire

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

— Herbert Spencer

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature 2 stop speech when words become superfluous.

— Unkown

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

— Criss Jami

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

— Julian Bond

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

— George D. Prentice

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

— William Shakespeare

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

— Mark Twain