Speech Quotes
2141 quotes by 1492 authors
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Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.
— David Malouf
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
— Susan Griffin
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
— Norman O. Brown
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
— Bergen Evans
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are…
— Confucius
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
— Ira Hayes
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Silence sweeter is than speech.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Song is the heroics of speech.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Speech is always bolder than action.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
— Antoine Rivarol
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
— Cato the Elder
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Speech is the mirror of action.
— Solon
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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I…
— Woodrow Wilson
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I…
— Maurice Blanchot
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
— Harold Pinter
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
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Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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