Quotes about speech
speech speak judgment
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. Jean de la Bruyere
speech incorporation
Speech is but the incorporation of thought. Joseph Joubert
speech certain has-beens
I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain. Klaus Kinski
speech way austin
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. J. L. Austin
speech forests hogwarts
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. J. K. Rowling
speech reason
Reason and speech we onely bring. George Herbert
speech world said
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. Gene Fowler
speech speak silent
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
speech stopping eloquence
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
speech honey tongue
From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. Homer
speech rich court
If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers. Howard Dean
speech consciousness silent
But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible. Jacques Derrida
speech jew protected
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’ Isaac Asimov
speech nine pounds
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. Joseph Addison
speech monkeys should
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. Kenneth Grahame
speech language ritual
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Ellen Goodman
speech meat drink
Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink. Epictetus
speech
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
speech speak one-love
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn. Henry Ward Beecher
speech india corruption
I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption. Narendra Modi
speech use language
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] Northrop Frye
speech certain existence
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence. Mason Cooley
speech association should
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. Mahatma Gandhi
speech association restoration
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
speech information oratory
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. Ralph Archbold
speech ireland-and-the-irish st-patrick
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. Shane Leslie
speech use conscious
I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use. Mick Jagger
speech free-speech ifs
What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say? John Hagee
speech speak free-speech
Free speech includes the right to not speak. Jimmy Wales
speech aphrodisiac cynicism
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) Kate Spade
speech serious injury
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Louis D. Brandeis
speech plant traitor
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth Lord Byron
speech purpose bliss
The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi