Speech Quotes
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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It seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the surge of emotions, and breathless speech. In short, I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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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.
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Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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.
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
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Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
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The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Take the risk that you’ll end up regretting your speech, because it’s better than regretting your silence.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
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Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.
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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.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
