Speech Quotes

Speech Quote of the day

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively.

Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.

Our daily conversation when we meet each other, whether it be in the office or on the campus or in the shop, should be concerned with the things of God.

We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence.

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality.

God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from heaven above the noisy din of earth’s confusion.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

Are you willing to follow [Christ] with a disciplined mind and tongue?

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.