Speech Quotes
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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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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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And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
Homer
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Speak briefly and to the point.
Cato the Younger
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
Stockwell Day
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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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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
William Butler Yeats
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Terence McKenna
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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.
William Feather
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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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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca the Younger
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles
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In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.
Ziad K. Abdelnour