Speech Quotes
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When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.
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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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I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
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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.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.
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In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle William Butler Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
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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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I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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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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I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!
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While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.
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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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Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
