Speech Quotes

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech)… — Eugenio Montale
Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing… — Li-Young Lee
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its… — Winston Churchill
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing. — Alexis de Tocqueville
As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing.… — Marilyn Monroe
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. — John F. Kennedy
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows. — Helen Keller
Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in… — Edward de Bono
It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in… — Dalai Lama
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax — Thomas Paine
To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer. — Jose Rizal
During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants… — Fred Thompson
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Nature doesn't make long speeches. — Laozi
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to… — Virginia Woolf
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not… — Neal Boortz
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to… — Charles Spurgeon
Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp — Bob Dylan
Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into… — Deepak Chopra

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