Speech Quotes
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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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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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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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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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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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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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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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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A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.
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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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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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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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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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We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
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True silence is the speech of lovers.
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Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
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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.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
