Speech Quotes · Page 38

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

— Gautama Buddha

We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He…

— Mark Foley

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

— Amit Kalantri

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can…

— George Steiner

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Peter Watts

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it.…

— Barbara Boxer

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say…

— Richard Darman

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

Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't…

— Michael Moore

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been…

— Barack Obama

[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow…

— David Lloyd George

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

— Bible

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only…

— Michael Pollan

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a…

— Mos Def

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what…

— Christopher Guest

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of…

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I…

— Eddie Marsan

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

— George T. Delacorte Jr

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

— Jules Verne

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

— Amit Kalantri

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

— John C. Maxwell

“No one in this world can imitate that which is still (acchad – the Pure Soul, Self). That which can be imitated…

— Dada Bhagwan

And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated…

— Thomas Hobbes