Speech Quotes

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the… — Mark Twain
I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on… — Mary Steenburgen
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of… — Barbara Kingsolver
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag… — Peggy Noonan
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… — Joseph Brodsky
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is… — Henry David Thoreau
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a… — Walter Hilton
When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think… — Samuel L. Lewis
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool,… — Woodrow Wilson
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.' — Robert Breault
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. — Mary Catherwood
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say,… — Eckhart Tolle
Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech. — Adolf Hitler
Let your speech be true and sweet. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is… — Winston Churchill

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