Speech Quotes · Page 61

“People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract…

— Dada Bhagwan

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

— Henry F. Ashurst

“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.”

— Davis Bunn

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

— Anonymous

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

— Voltaire

“They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway.”

— John Steinbeck

There is a national climate here. We're seeing a rise in hate speech, in intolerance, in racism, in division.

— Ted Wheeler

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

— John Leo

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than…

— Patti Smith

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely…

— Lucien Bourjeily

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness…

— William Cowper

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was…

— Frederick Douglass

When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy…

— Leana S. Wen

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to…

— Abraham Lincoln

To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing…

— Aldo Leopold

One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001…

— Michael Scheuer

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in…

— George Orwell

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of…

— Bruce Chatwin

In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,…

— Amartya Sen

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing…

— Jan Neruda

It's a free country, man. Freedom of speech is the first amendment. But when you are talking business and being a role…

— Mike Perry

Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning…

— Scott D. Anthony

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of…

— Randall Munroe

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

— Anonymous

If the earth surface wud talk, then its speech will be rated Adults Only

— Patric Bensen

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

— Ramana Maharshi

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

— Winston Churchill

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to…

— John Steinbeck

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

— Denise Levertov

“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

— Jeanine Pirro

“I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.”

— Jarod Kintz

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

— Anthony Kennedy

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

— David Mamet

When I was falling asleep I would practice my Grammys speech when I was a little kid.

— Noah Kahan

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.”

— Ho Tzu Nyen

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

— George Santayana