Speech Quotes

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded… — Albert Camus
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place… — Lois Lowry
Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words,… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
Darkness promotes speech. — Alberto Manguel
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. — Patricia Briggs
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and… — Peter S. Beagle
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant… — Winston Churchill
It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language. — Mark Doty
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… — James Joyce
So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to… — Homer
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of… — C.S. Lewis
A word in earnest is as good as a speech. — Charles Dickens
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one… — Norah Vincent

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