Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But they don't love her like they loved Bill [Clinton], and they don't love her like they loved Barack [Obama], and they don't love her like they love Michelle [Obama]. The love they have for her is related to the fact that right next to her name is a big capital D on the ballot.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech.'

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

I am speechless: I have no speech

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

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 speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I bet we`ll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to be resettled here.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

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 hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

I definitely support free speech.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

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 good novel.

I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.