Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Let your speech be true and sweet.

[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Looking to Donald Trump`s immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got him this far?

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.