Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

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

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

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

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 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.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

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 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.

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.

True silence is really endless speech.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.