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Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.