Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

True silence is really endless speech.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

We shouldn't have free speech.

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump`s plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.