Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

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

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 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 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 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 glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

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

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 one ever complains about a speech being too short!

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

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.

Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit lobbying, we are in effect limiting free speech.

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.