Speech Quotes · Page 48

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Mark Twain

“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

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

— Ben Jonson

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

— George Bernard Shaw

'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

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Amit Kalantri

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see…

— Louise Erdrich

Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

— Jay Leno

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech…

— Julius Genachowski

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen…

— Tom Hooper

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of…

— Clarence Thomas

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do…

— Peter Hermann

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from…

— Mark Twain

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.…

— Brennan Manning

To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom…

— Susan Griffin

Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions…

— David Mamet

“His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate,…

— Stephen King

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be…

— Michael Rosen

The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the…

— Richard Rodriguez

When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is…

— Confucius

“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…

— H.L. Mencken

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

— David Frum

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

— Richard Wagner

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

— Peggy Noonan

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

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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

— Fidel Castro

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

— Homer

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

— Elizabeth Berkley

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

— Herman Cain

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

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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

— Alan Bullock

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

— Jennifer Carpenter

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

— Confucius

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

— Alan Hirsch

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

— George Eliot

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

— John C. Maxwell

“Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.”

— Amit Kalantri