Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality.

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

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 be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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 be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

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.