Speakers Quotes

370 Speakers quotes by 306 unique authors

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental… — Jim Ryun
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical… — Albert Speer
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums. — Neil Peart
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. — Benjamin Disraeli
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I… — Lucy Stone
It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments'… — Elie Wiesel
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. — Daniel Schorr
A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands… — Unknown Author
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the… — Cliff Martinez
Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may… — Lorenzo Snow
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom. — Horace
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I do not speak of what I cannot praise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is delivery that makes the orators success. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
Opening amenities are often opening inanities. — Winston Churchill
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. — Oscar Wilde
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves. — William Hazlitt
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through. — Richard Armour
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing. — Plutarch
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or… — William Francis Henry King

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