Speech Quotes · Page 47

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

— Moliere

“The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.”

— Elizabeth George

“Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.”

— Elizabeth George

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of…

— Chris Evert

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

— Richard Armour

After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

— Dennis Miller

A man who is wise in speech but not in deeds is not wise for me.

— Vikrant Parsai

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

— Homer

“If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we…

— Madeleine Thien

When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech,…

— Carly Fiorina

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right…

— Lucy Stone

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one…

— Temple Grandin

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech…

— Chris Coons

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They…

— Hank Johnson

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a…

— Seth Shostak

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking…

— Clint Eastwood

In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with…

— Jay Leno

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say…

— Pat Conroy

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little…

— Anne Fortier

Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting…

— Stephen Colbert

Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful.…

— Gautama Buddha

“I believe in the right to offend. To insult. Even to horrify. It’s not that we’re supposed to enjoy it; it’s that…

— Megyn Kelly

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

— Andre Norton

One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

— Sophocles

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

— Joseph Conrad

I'm still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a…

— Gabrielle Carteris

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

— Wendell Phillips

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers...

— Bob Hope

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

— Colleen McCullough

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

— Naomi Klein

“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.”

— Amit Kalantri

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

— Carly Simon

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

— Bob Kahn

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

— Stockwell Day

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.”

— Walter Bagehot

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

— Horace Mann

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same…

— Danica McKellar