Speech Quotes
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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Charles Dickens
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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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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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Ira Hayes
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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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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
Gareth Gates
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
Yair Lapid
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.
Lev Vygotsky
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The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
Rene Cassin
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
Maajid Nawaz
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot
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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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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
Pat Oliphant
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Warren E. Burger
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
Barry O'Farrell
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
Umar
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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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