Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

Ben Crenshaws, Ive got a good feeling speech.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. 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.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trump's speeches for the last two or three weeks not the FBI but ObamaCare. That seems to me to be the thing that moved the votes in Michigan, that moved the votes in places where we otherwise Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.