Speech Quotes

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Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. — Art Buchwald
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good. — Mahatma Gandhi
I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me,… — David Livingstone
I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it… — L. Tom Perry
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. — Philip Sidney
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,… — L. Tom Perry
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you… — Nhat Hanh
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech. — Michael Shermer
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the… — William O. Douglas
A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech. — T. Boone Pickens
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and… — Beverly LaHaye
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community… — Amy Waldman
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life. — Seneca the Younger
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called… — Charles Dudley Warner

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