Speech Quotes

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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir menâ€™s blood: I only speak right… — William Shakespeare
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some… — A. J. Jacobs
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of… — Brennan Manning
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In… — Brennan Manning
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact,… — Alfred North Whitehead
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion… — Rudyard Kipling
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw… — Wystan Hugh Auden
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk… — Jonathan Safran Foer
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of… — Lorrie Moore
I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens… — Koren Zailckas
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it… — William Shakespeare
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. — Hermann Hesse
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him â€” the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve… — Naomi Wolf
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of… — George Orwell
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but… — Milan Kundera

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