Speeches Quotes

246 Speeches quotes by 217 unique authors

Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders. — Pete Seeger
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether thy be wise… — Demosthenes
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches — Otto Von Bismarck
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other… — Dixie Carter
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency… — Dorothy Dix
I'm sick and tired of hearing the same 'but I can't live without her', 'but I need him' 'I'm lost without them' speeches from so… — Rebecca Jessop
People may think talking to yourself is a mental thing. How else are we supposed to plan first dates, think of speeches, continue stories, and… — Morgan Pierce
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a… — James Humes
I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump. — Karen Morley
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. — Frances Rodman
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in… — Unknown Author
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. — Alfred E Neuman
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches — Will Rogers
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. — Francis Bacon Sr
He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his speeches garbled — Kin Hubbard
I have heard a lot of best man speeches in my life and yours was by far the sweetest, most honest, and the most memorable.… — Haley James Scott
He wants to get the business done. He doesn't want to hear a lot of speeches. He doesn't suffer fools, and he doesn't suffer people… — Richard Harris
The MAN above me has been LOYAL to me all my LIFE:!) Give him my SPEECHES, the answer RETURNED at any given SECOND... GOD is… — Tee Shepard
Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite… — John Chrysostom
Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering… — Robert Leighton
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congressthese, for the… — Mary McCarthy

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