Speech Quotes

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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab… — Jack Welch
I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful… — Vivienne Westwood
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. — Edith Wharton
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer.… — Ellen G. White
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why… — Walt Whitman
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached… — Juan Williams
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. — E. O. Wilson
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. — Fred Wilson
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In… — Tom Wolfe
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact… — Tom Wolfe
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know… — George Edward Woodberry
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal… — George Edward Woodberry
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. — Virginia Woolf
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult… — Liu Xiaobo
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to… — Julian Baggini
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the… — George Eliot
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet… — William Carlos Williams
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But… — Oliver Sacks
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. — Grant Morrison

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