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.

Alan Lowenthal

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Anthony Cordesman

The problem with the speeches is they get gradually more realistic, but they are still exercises in spin. They don't outline the risks. They don't create a climate where people trust what's being said.

Brian Cox

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

David Suzuki

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Lawrence Summers

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

Jane Siberry

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Bob Hill

We're good enough to be a playoff team with those two, no doubt about it in my mind. We're a different team with them. We're fast. We run and get out on the break. ... The entire climate has changed.

Todd Dawson

This project really shows the importance of the world's biota and especially trees on the climate system.

Berry Gordy

Today's business climate is not for me.

Hugo Chavez

We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years,

Kenneth Miller

Whenever you debate, you should really have one person representing I.D. on one side and 10,000 scientists on the other. That would give a fair representation of the division of opinion in the scientific community.

John Warhurst

We want others to know that the debate is not over and we want another referendum in due course.

Joe Solmonese

The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and the truth,

Craig Mathias

There is a lot of debate right now about who will have the right approach,

Elaine Sciolino

Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.

Eric Alterman

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

Bill Nye

The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.

Deng Xiaoping

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.