Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Jane Austen

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Charles Spurgeon

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Edward Norton

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Camille Paglia

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

Bennett Cerf

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Bill Peterson

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Blaise Pascal

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Blaise Pascal

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Charles Perrault

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

Oliver Goldsmith

To feel your subject thoroughly and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence

George Washington

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.

William C. Bryant

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William Zinsser

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

John Ridley

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.

Capt. Ready

We're trying to use discretion as much as we can ? recognizing people's right to free speech.

Troy Bell

The police officers received training. The officers had some discretion in terms of the minor violations. That discretion has been removed.

Cam Newton

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

Robert Clifford

Typically, much of the resolution of issues like this is placed in the sound discretion of the trial judge.

Marty Markowitz

I think these things are up to the discretion of the borough president,

Ned Riley

It is another piece of good news in that it leaves the Fed in an unfettered position to exercise more discretion in monetary easing. Because the economy has displayed such weakness and inflation has been non-existent with the exception of energy-related prices, the short-term inflation number may be less relevant.

Daryl Manning

We want to be sure that we execute that discretion wisely. We want to look to the future before we make any changes.

Terry Hoeppner

We'd like to have had him out there, we need every rep we can get, but discretion was the better part. He'll have a great summer working with the quarterbacks. Like I told him, if he keeps doing what he's doing, he's going to be illegal.