Speech Quotes
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The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
Charles Dickens
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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Muriel Spark
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
George Bernard Shaw
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
Thomas Aquinas
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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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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
Ben Lerner
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
Sun Ra
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
Martin Luther
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
Seneca the Younger
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This president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech
Chris Shays
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This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca the Younger
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
Benjamin Carson
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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.
Simon Sinek
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
Jules Verne
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato the Younger
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Stephen Sondheim
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
Washington Gladden
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
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I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the graduation speech at Wharton, which is what my dad did. I wrote the speech.
Aaron Karo
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I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able to put out plays in which we make fun of ourselves or in which we interrogate the words that injure us. And maybe give them another meaning.
Judith Butler
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Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
Ephrem the Syrian