Speech Quotes
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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.
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The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
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Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
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Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.
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People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
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The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
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I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!
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Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
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To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.
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True silence is the speech of lovers.
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
