Speech Quotes · Page 49

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

— Robert Burns

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

— Henry Adams

Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'

— Franchesca Ramsey

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

— Salman Rushdie

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

— Matt Selman

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

— Alan Dershowitz

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

— Gustave Flaubert

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

— John Andrew Holmes

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day…

— Aldous Huxley

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship…

— Hugo Black

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty…

— Groucho Marx

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I wrote this speech thinking this was going to be it. It's not it. You guys went and screwed up my whole…

— Kent Hrbek

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel…

— Mark McKinnon

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

— Thomas Carlyle

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented…

— Tom Hooper

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error…

— Thomas Hobbes

The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count…

— George Eliot

“In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will “suck away the air” from those with a more passive nature, despite all…

— Kató Lomb

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not…

— Paul Celan

“Okay, here’s the first speech. You guys know what ‘black’ means, right? It means a program or project that is not acknowledged…

— Tom Clancy

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from…

— Corra May Harris

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free…

— Thomas Frank

“Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceable assembly must remain sacrosanct.”

— Bryant McGill

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

— Salman Rushdie

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

— Robin Quivers

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

— Donald Trump

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

— Scott Simon

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

— James Earl Jones

I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.

— Stacey Abrams

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

— Kenneth Oppel

Tears of eyes are valuable, speech of lips are powerful, heart with love is beautiful, life with friends is most wonderful.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

— Anonymous

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Do not Speak for Anyone. Just let them know their Right to Speak.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

— Thomas Seward

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

— Isaac Asimov