Speech Quotes · Page 57

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

— Malala Yousafzai

Freedom of speech and civil liberties have been targeted and repressed in Hong Kong.

— Michelle Steel

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Anonymous

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

“Speech is like an arrow; it is necessary to aim it by way of reflection before uttering anything.”

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight…

— Frank Norris

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put…

— P. G. Wodehouse

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech,…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country…

— Charb

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce…

— Conan O'Brien

“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue…

— Brit Hume

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell…

— Jacques Barzun

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process," she said in her speech. "I was completely the eager beaver…

— Emma Watson

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything…

— Oliver North

The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech…

— William Cowper

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for…

— Hillary Clinton

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by…

— Hugo Black

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden…

— Frank Rich

It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but…

— Dalai Lama

The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more…

— Charles Evans Hughes

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

— Mary Lou Retton

“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.”

— Erin Moure

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at…

— Lydia Ko

The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.

— Anonymous

And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.

— Homer

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself,…

— Jonathan Krohn

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

— Samuel Beckett

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

— Nat Hentoff

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.

— Shawn Amos

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.

— Stephen Covey

The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

— Herman Herst Jr

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

— Michael J. Fox

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

— Howard Dean

“Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together”

— Luce Irigaray

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

— Anonymous

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

— Zhuangzi