Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

A great speech is literature.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

And Ralph Nader, God bless him, still out there campaigning. Ralph Nader said today he has set a record for the most campaign speeches given in one day. He gave 21 speeches in one day. Of course, we have to take his word for it, because of course, there are no witnesses.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.