Speeches Quotes

246 Speeches quotes by 217 unique authors

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the… — H. L. Mencken
Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. — Dee Dee Myers
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives… — Paula Poundstone
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. — Colin Powell
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. — Lucy Powell
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility… — Dan Quayle
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. — Will Rogers
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to… — Marjane Satrapi
Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. — Pete Seeger
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an… — Sivananda
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading… — Pierre Trudeau
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type… — Ted Turner
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. — Gore Vidal
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there… — Voltaire
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab… — Jack Welch
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

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