Speech Quotes

I can give the loser leave to chide.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

It is always healthy to be honest.

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.