Speech Quotes
We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.
Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.
If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanistan, he gave a speech that had two parts to it.
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.
At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.
Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.
The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.
Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.
No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.
