Speech Quotes · Page 9

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

— Rumi

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

— Regina Maria Roche

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

— Gustave Flaubert

“It is free speech, just edited into defeat.”

— Brian Spellman

A kiss is glorious method designed by people to stop speech

— Suraj Ary

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

— C. S. Lewis

“An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

— Disha Patani

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

— Narendra Modi

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.

— Thomas Merton

Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

— Martin Luther

“It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.”

— A.E. Samaan

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

— Charles Bradlaugh

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

— Horace

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

— Bill Maher

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

— Donald Trump

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being…

— Anne Waldman

You go to your best friends wedding and give a dirty speech about thier relationship but it turns out your at an…

— Mayla

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of…

— Anna Quindlen

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in…

— Russell Baker

In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or…

— Maria Konnikova

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That…

— Frank Hague

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face…

— Jimmy Wales

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump's plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to…

— Kellyanne Conway

La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand…

— Gustave Flaubert

Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent,…

— Thomas Pynchon

The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking,…

— Jane Hirshfield

Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We…

— Spiro T. Agnew

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...…

— W. Somerset Maugham

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got…

— Hillary Clinton

We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving…

— Cornel West

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The…

— Vartan Gregorian

“Speech is no more than a commercial approach to reality.”

— Lisa Gorton

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

— Matthew McConaughey

“The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.”

— Mike Bell

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

— Ovid

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

— Thomas Hobbes

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

— Kate Langley Bosher