Diogenes Quotes
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Diogenes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
Macy Gray -
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
Saint Ignatius -
I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
Gareth Gates -
I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
Gabrielle Giffords -
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
Gareth Gates -
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Ovid -
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
Kate Forsyth -
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter -
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. Taylor -
When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
Ted Olson -
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
Pat Sajak -
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
Larry Flynt -
I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.
Gareth Gates -
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Candice Bergen
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
Baruch Spinoza -
When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.
Evelyn Lauder -
I have such an image of a mafioso.
Paul Sorvino -
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
Aberjhani -
People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.
Mickey Drexler -
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Diogenes