Speeches Quotes

246 Speeches quotes by 217 unique authors

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You… — Jane Austen
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then… — Kurt Vonnegut
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery… — Charles Spurgeon
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… — Mark Helprin
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not… — Meg Cabot
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
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — 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
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
Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law… — Mark Levin
Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be… — Rachel Maddow
…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We… — Karen Joy Fowler
Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches. — Allison Glock
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is… — Stephen King
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. — William Shakespeare
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to… — P.G. Wodehouse
Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders… — Kristin Cashore
They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. — Rob Lowe
I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. — Garry Trudeau
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

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