Speech Quotes
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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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While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.
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And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
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We have only prepared the ground. If it is possible to continue? .... it's not clear yet. We have to wait until the speech.
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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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If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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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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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
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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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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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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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Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
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I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.
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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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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
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Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.
