Speech Quotes · Page 59

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

— Jonathan Swift

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

— Dorothy Richardson

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

— Oliver Herford

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

— Vladimir Lenin

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

— Confucius

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“I listen to Alicia practice a speech for class, and I don’t look at the clock even once. In fact, for the…

— Nate LeBoutillier

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like.…

— Glenn Greenwald

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost…

— Huey Long

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the…

— Neil Gaiman

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives…

— Joe Biden

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should…

— Julian Baggini

I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan…

— Amanda Hocking

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the…

— A. E. Waite

. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large…

— Catherine L. Albanese

“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more…

— CrimethInc

The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech…

— J. I. Packer

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the…

— John F. Kennedy

The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role…

— David Sedaris

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making…

— Kevin Watkins

A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than…

— Leslie Jordan

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us…

— John Stossel

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

— Jennifer Stone

“Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

— Max Eastman

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

— Salman Rushdie

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

— Greg Abbott

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

— Epictetus

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

— Bob Kerrey

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

— Samuel Alito

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

— Lord Acton

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

— Adrian Cronauer

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper

“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!”

— Taylor Mali

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin