Speaking Quotes

1939 Speaking quotes by 1471 unique authors

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with… — Kevin A. Ford
Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax.… — Malcolm Turnbull
The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening… — Robert D. Kaplan
I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic… — Charles Taze Russell
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A… — Scott Lynch
I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was… — Alexander Lebedev
Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers,… — Curtis Sliwa
If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody… — Tarsem Singh
What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to… — Zelig Pliskin
I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I… — Thomas J. Paprocki
Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and… — Paul Kivel
Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence… — Derek R. Audette
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? — Walker Percy
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to… — Ambrose Bierce
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend… — Bill Nighy
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. — Jonathan Swift
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. — Plautus
Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! — Mark Twain
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human… — William Penn
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly. — William Penn
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with… — Thomas Carlyle
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge. — Lord Chesterfield
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible. — Thomas Paine

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