Speech Quotes
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
Natalie Portman
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This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Gautama Buddha
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
William Butler Yeats
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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
Ernest Shackleton
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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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."
Francis Bacon
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“More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do.”
Nadine Strossen
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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
George III
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When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
Haylie Duff
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If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.
Barney Rosset
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And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
Homer
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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."
Allan Loeb
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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
Emily Dickinson
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
Seneca the Younger
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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'.
Scott Adams
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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.
Ben Lerner
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it. It comes because you can change the material conditions of people, and get people to assist in the change, be the mainstay in the change in their conditions.
Chokwe Lumumba
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If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
Tim Robbins
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Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.
David M. Cote
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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
Anna Kamienska
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
Chael Sonnen
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Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
Bonar Law