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Speech Quotes by George Eliot
- Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
- That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a…
- I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to…
- Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not…
- Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
- 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…
- It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else. — Drew Barrymore
- Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes
- If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for… — Jacques Barzun
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie