Speech Quotes · Page 32

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

— Rick Ungar

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

— Mark Twain

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

— Ai Weiwei

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

'To Speak' we don't have to Pay anything other than the 'ability to Speak', but we have to 'Pay Heavily for what…

— Santanu Mishra

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

— George Bernard Shaw

“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.”

— Amit Kalantri

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

— Hilaire Belloc

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really…

— Jeff Bezos

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him…

— Jean de La Fontaine

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over…

— Samuel Johnson

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished…

— Maria Montessori

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Hillary Clinton trashes the banks every time she opens her mouth, and yet she made $21 million in two years making speeches…

— Rush Limbaugh

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social…

— Alan Lomax

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..."…

— Peggy Noonan

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby…

— Thomas Hobbes

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to…

— Kate Burton

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work…

— Chris Parnell

I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way…

— Gareth Gates

My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than…

— Noam Chomsky

“...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences,…

— George Washington

And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards…

— Julian Barnes

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

— Ben Jonson

“He’d never let anyone in before. Maybe sex really had only been for sport in the past. With us, it was speech.”

— Laurelin Paige

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

— Richard Wagner

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

— David Frum

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

— Elizabeth Berkley

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

— Fidel Castro

“YOU CAN WIN THE WORLD BY TWO WAYS; EITHER BY YOUR SPEECH OR BY YOUR SILENCE.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

— Homer

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

— Peggy Noonan

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

— Alan Bullock

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.”

— Herman Cain

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

— Confucius

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

— Jennifer Carpenter

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

— George Eliot

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

— Alan Hirsch