Speech Quotes
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Ralph Richardson
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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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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. Taylor
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean Myers
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
Stephen Hopkins
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Mahavira
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
E. L. Doctorow
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Did what he has to do in this speech and in the ones that will follow in the next weeks, which is to shore up American support, to remind the American people why we must win this battle against the terrorists.
Joe Lieberman
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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
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
Gareth Gates
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
Wayne Rogers
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EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will.
Eliphas Levi
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey
