Speech Quotes · Page 40

It's true: What one person might consider 'hate speech,' another might consider to be harmless, or even funny.

— Kat Timpf

“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”

— Stephen Keague

That's the last time I work with somebody with a speech impediment!

— Daffy Duck

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

— Elliott Abrams

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.”

— C.S. Lewis

For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

— Roy Peter Clark

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most…

— Jonathan Rauch

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is…

— Walter Lippmann

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming…

— Raymond Chandler

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level,…

— Al Pacino

This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and…

— Jimmy Fallon

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and…

— Aziz Ansari

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is…

— Steve Daines

“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient…

— Roald Dahl

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the…

— Leonard Cohen

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom…

— Ambrose Bierce

We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed,…

— Ted Cruz

There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This…

— Jenny Diski

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter…

— Brennan Manning

The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate…

— Dave Rodgers

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is…

— Nick Harkaway

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

— Penn Jillette

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.”

— Brad Meltzer

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

— Confucius

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part…

— Oliver Sacks

When making a speech, most people will only remember the first and last parts. If these are good, the entire speech is…

— Maria Micah Rosales

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW,…

— Emma Watson

“The One whose body, mind and speech become saiyamit (under his control), He Himself has become the absolute Self (Parmatma)!”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— George T. Delacorte Jr

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

— Thomas Hobbes

Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

— Flea

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

— Gabrielle Giffords

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

— Samuel Chadwick

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

— Aeschylus

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

— Benjamin Franklin