Speech Quotes
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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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c is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
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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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True silence is the speech of lovers.
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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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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
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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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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
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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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While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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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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In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
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One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.
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I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
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Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
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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.
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In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
