Speeches Quotes

246 Speeches quotes by 217 unique authors

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 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
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
â€¦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 clubâ€™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)donâ€™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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