Speech Quotes
2141 quotes by 1492 authors
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I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All…
— Dylan Moran
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O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with…
— John Baillie
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I wrote this speech thinking this was going to be it. It's not it. You guys went and screwed up my whole speech. We've got…
— Kent Hrbek
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I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the…
— Anagarika Govinda
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
— O. Henry
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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence…
— Helen Keller
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No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about…
— Edgar Dale
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Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable…
— Jeff Gannon
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'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you…
— David Harsanyi
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Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment…
— Charles Krauthammer
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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed…
— Frances Farenthold
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In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with food, medicine, supplies,…
— Jay Leno
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I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts…
— H. L. Mencken
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Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won't…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is…
— B.F. Skinner
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Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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