Speech Quotes

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Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. — Richard Wagner
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was… — Richard Darman
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex,… — Barbara Amiel
From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million… — Hillary Clinton
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came — Sophocles
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming… — John McGahern
Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from… — Rumi
President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,'… — Jimmy Fallon
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans… — Paul Ryan
As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate. — Bela Kun
Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who… — Courtney Milan
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the… — Thomas Hobbes
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little… — Beck
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats… — Aristotle
Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which… — Isocrates
To me no profitable speech sounds ill. — Sophocles
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . .… — Confucius
Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds.… — Morihei Ueshiba

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