Speech Quotes

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Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be… — Phil Collins
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime. — Honus Wagner
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives… — Zig Ziglar
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah More
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Xenocrates
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God. — Samuel Chadwick
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most… — Lee Strobel
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking,… — Stephen Hawking
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the… — Phyllis McGinley
An aspersion upon my parts of speech! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution… — James Crawford
Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint." — Van Jones
I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach. — Drake
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. — Thomas Hobbes
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. — Thomas Carlyle
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all… — George Eliot
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be… — Laozi
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. — Dionysius I of Syracuse

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