Speech Quotes · Page 35

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

— Anonymous

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

— William Shatner

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

— Keke Palmer

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

— Octavia Spencer

Unity is not found in the hateful speech of Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Congressman Bobby Rush.

— Brian Mast

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must…

— Margaret Atwood

A new report just came out that says President Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in more speeches than President Bush did. Can…

— Conan O'Brien

When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and…

— Lea Michele

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech…

— Liu Xiaobo

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's…

— Dan Quayle

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has…

— Lenny Bruce

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement…

— Aristotle

I go to grad school at NYU, and I learn all these things about speech and voice and games. It's like camp…

— Sterling K. Brown

I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably…

— Kim Brooks

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of…

— Frank Van Dun

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate…

— Ilana Mercer

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as…

— William Shakespeare

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and…

— Mark Twain

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere…

— Abraham Lincoln

For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may…

— Barack Obama

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

— Anonymous

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

— Nouman Ali Khan

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

— Geert Wilders

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

— Yanni

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

— Linda Bradford Raschke

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

— Ellen Burstyn

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

— Dan Savage

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead…

— Freya Stark

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

— Chael Sonnen